Several hours later, Paul stood on the balcony that curved around their living quarters. He needed to remember to take extra sheets and leave them in the atrium. He was forever destroying Morian’s clothing and having to wrap her up in the coverings from the bed. He had carried her back to their rooms a little over an hour ago where they had bathed together before falling into bed again. Even as sated as his body was, he knew there was one more thing he needed to do before he could give in to the exhaustion pulling at him.
He had carefully unwound his body from Morian and pulled on a pair of loose fitting sweatpants that hung low on his hips. He moved on silent feet as he quietly slipped outside so he could look up at the stars glittering in the clear night sky. He breathed in deeply as he
