Northstar Vale sunflare

he came to her like a god.

arsenio's element had become the vale. where he had burned in akashingo now he glowed among the greenery and the four lakes, amid the mud and swampland and fields of wildflowers, inside the forests where they hunted together and loved one another often.

she reached for him, not rising. "come. lie with me," and when her redstone husband agreed, tamar wrapped her slender limbs around his shoulders and pulled their bellies together.

she laughed softly against his face. "it is not just you and i who lay here today."