Dangerous Pleasures
"I know how you feel the cold, Shan."
"Thanks, babe," I replied, and he laughed.
The evening was my favourite kind. Wind, clouds, deep ultramarine at the zenith fading to dusky pink towards the west. Slowly the stars of the southern sky came out - Sirius, Castor, Pollux, Rigel in Orion, the Pleiades. Bats and the occasional owl darted through the circle of light cast by our windows, and I could hear Olly breathing.
"I don't look up enough," he sighed after some time.
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