Stone Circle Life alone makes me shake

He trembled beneath her touch, and Reverie nearly abandoned the embrace for fear of overstepping. Then he tucked his nose into her fur and she hugged him a little tighter. She felt his tears in her fur, warm at first and then chilling in the frigid air. He was breaking. What could she do but hold him?
I'm here, She said softly. For as long as you need me. He had others, surely. Those who knew him well and loved him, and she could claim neither of those things. But just in case he needed it, just in case he wanted it, she carefully held out the piece of her heart that she'd already set aside for him. Funny, how she'd abandoned everything to escape the burdens of love and responsibility, and now that she had that freedom she used it only to give pieces of herself away. Pieces she knew she would miss, promises she knew she would regret. But more than she wanted her freedom, more than she wanted anything except, perhaps, to dance forever: she wanted to be loved.