Dragoncrest Cliffs remembering when you were mine

"i would." and so she stood alongside him. he was polite. there could be no other archangel as rosencrantz had been, but the silent watch that eadwulf had kept reminded erzulie always that sapphique must have its guardian.
she wondered if in time he would become that.
and she had liked the way that he had kept from looking at her, even while his mouth had become full. mobile. erzulie blooming slowly into the desirous sea-rose as she did each year.
"have you ever seen a whale?"