5After a quiet supper, Lena floated languidly through the gardens of coral which grew just beyond the cavern’s threshold. Overhead, a watery rainbow of twilight permeated the surface. Steadily, the oscillating swaths of orange and pink disappeared, and a deep, thick darkness blanketed the sea. All around her, eels slithered through the water like glistening streamers of light. Lena jumped as she felt one flutter past her shoulder, but when she whirled around, she found Asger hovering beside her instead.
“I thank you for the meal, søstjerne,” he said softly, resting his hand on her shoulder. The breadth of his shadow consumed her, mimicking the night. He trailed his fingers to her elbow, then lower, to her wrist. “It was delicious,” he murmured, twining their fingers together.
Lena blushe
