011: tenderness

She knew that in a few hours, when the sun arose from its travels on the other side of the world, this moment would come to pass, as both she and the sleeping beauty beside her would need to rejoin the endless march of time. Yet here, in this moment, as she felt the gentle rise and fall of the dreaming nymph's chest--their bodies blanketed by moonlight and wrapped in each other--the sleepless youth found solace. She smiled and gently kissed her lover's cheek, and finally drifted into slumber. The sun could have them soon...but not yet.