“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”
-Hermann Hesse
Katerina stirred in her sleep with vicious nightmares continuously whimpering in distress as Abelardo stood at the window, waiting for Katerina to gain consciousness as it was past two hours in midnight.
Her eyes shot open at once and Katerina immediately sprang up and yelled worried, "Abe,
