Very gently, midnight had settled over the nd, singing its song of eternal loyalty and fate.

  Without giving Tom an answer, she had taken him by the hand and pulled him out into the warm te-summer night.The soft moonlight flooded the forest. They were a little way off from the tent; Tom had now stepped before her, watching her in silence, while she had lost her gaze in the vastness of the night sky.

  Gently, he reached out his hands toward her, beginning slowly to open her dress...Only now did she look at him. Her heart beat violently against her chest as she held her breath while he pulled her dress down, inch by inch... the flow of time stood still.

  As it slid to the ground, he stripped her panties down with infinite slowness...

  Naked and bare she stood before him now; he knelt before her in the grass. Eyes like the vast, storm-swept sky rested upon her, while midnight had id the cloak of silence over their small world.

  The light of the moon bathed her skin in a silvery shimmer - making her look almost unreal - as if she had sprung from another world.

  A long-lost longing pulsed as hot as fire through his veins...He would have loved to pull her down to him and love her until the morning light. Yet for some reason, he remained motionless, sitting before her in the grass - his gaze lost in her beauty.

  Quietly, midnight bid farewell to this world, leaving them both alone beneath the endlessness of the night sky...Smiling, Time looked into the mirror of worlds - watching as the paths of fate wove themselves together....