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Yuri, by instinct, slipped his arm around Taya's waist as he approached to join her as she looked out over the vast expanse of ocean. The sounds of the waves moving gently across the rocks below brought her a calm she never recalled feeling before. She watched as sea birds rose and fell in the wind, whilst others below them swam, their small forms bobbing up and down, drawn along by the gentle currents.
“It is beautiful here,” she whispered, feeling small against the grandness of the world around her. The endless ocean reached past the horizon with the limitless sky falling to meet it. The sun warmed her skin and, for a moment she relished in the light touch of his arms around her. She closed her eyes, allowing both his warmth and that from the sun to envelop her completely.
“Migh
