Buzz nodded, then took a deep breath and shook his shoulders, like a bird settling its feathers. You are echoing my fantasy, ma petite, have I taken you over? I don't think so, I said, but even the thought of it didn't panic me. I stopped abruptly and opened my eyes, and was inches away from the wall. I stood and I almost fell.
But yours, yours is a beauty that lulls one into comfort, into not protecting one's eyes from the light, then one night you realize that the moon, too, has its beauty. When we were at the top, even with Clay, I stopped long enough to say, All those women better be of age, Clay. Why should it? He smiled then, and there was relief in his eyes. So you're saying that we've fallen into the love lives we have so that we can face our demons and slay them? Or realize that what we thought were monsters aren't that much different from us.
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