Her lips trembled. She had prayed for this, but she had prepared herself for more resistance from Ezekiel. Him, finally giving in to her requests was such an unexpected shock. She thought from all the other times that he had either avoided the topic or denied her, she was about to open her mouth and argue until she lost her breath. Thus, him suddenly accepting so easily like this was like taking the wind from her sails and her mouth hung open in shock for a few moments.
Then, she threw herself into his arms. Hugging him so tightly that she might even meld in and become a part of him. Tears of joy pooled in her eyes.
"I've heard that. You're not going to tell me I heard it wrong…" she said. Then she pulled away and stared into his eyes again. She noticed that darkness in his left eye was slowly fading. The black hue was receding as though being pulled back into the depths of his pupil by an overwhelming gravitational force within it.
