Coconut Grove Blooming like the shadows upon you I drowned beside

<3 beautiful thread as always

She kisses him and he lets her, and he almost can't believe that he had. It'd been so calm, so tender, so sincere, and yet as soon as he felt the warmth of a gentle mouth against his hardened cheek the lump in his throat grew and his lifeblood surged with something unbecoming. His chest ached with longing of body and brain and heart, a desire that had been shelved so deeply within his mind for many moons.
And he felt shame.
She doesn't fight his call for rest, and for that he finds himself thankful. Get some sleep.
And he would not go far, but he would lay separate from mother and daughter as a figure designated other — he was no father, nor husband. And he would not sleep until the first rays of light found his guarded back, and they would not move forward until the seabirds crowded them and the ocean roared with a wordless frostiness.