Moonbound
That is the gift of trust: it collapses architecture.
“Say something rude,” she whispered, breath catching on relief.
“You snore,” he said at exactly the wrong time—so perfectly wrong it made a god feel foolish for listening. “And you eat the good ends of bread first.”
She laughed. The book flickered—offended, then empty, then reappearing where it belonged: in Maera’s arm, under a lighthouse’s window, far away from spectacle. The dream tried to salvage itself by summoning Silas with a candle and a program. He arrived belatedly, as dreams make villains do when the bodies in them have learned to be impolite.