was approaching. Sex vedio What was he to do? He had observed these gestures time and time again and usually ignored them. Love was their nirvana, a realm at once beautiful and empty, dead yet more alive than life itself, a place of paradox that was preferable to logic. “Shit, the goddam son of a bitch has taken something,” said Grant, fingering the torn velvet inside the box and causing the only other contents to fall unnoticed to the floor. He smiled and kissed her. As he lay there he caught the faint smell of lavender coming from somewhere. As gently as she had placed it there she now took it away and again he saw that glowing smile. “No sir, I’m ill. It was followed by another, different but also familiar. She gave it to me three years ago on my thirtieth birthday. What barbarians, he thought. Deep the falling of the night, star holds sacred rank with star, lordly beams and twinklings bright glitter near and shine afar, glitter mirrored in the lake, gleam in cloudless night on high. I can understand that this uniform can be intimidating.”
“I must apologise…Josef, but we’re new here and still under probation.”
“I understand. “What does it say?”
“Mein geliebter sohn…” offered Grant. He looked the very image of one of his ancient Greeks, she thought fondly; he
