Causality (Causality #1) (System 35)
The milky light of the moon shimmers on the bedroom wall, broken by the tree branches in the garden, and by summer leaves.
The milky light of the moon shimmers on the bedroom wall, broken by the tree branches in the garden, and by summer leaves.
He is deeply asleep, and lies unmoving as the square of light drifts down the wall towards his head, in counterpoint to the moon’s stately rise into the sky.
The silver light touches his dark hair, and it seems to unsettle him, though he doesn’t wake. The rhythm of his breathing changes as the light glides across his forehead. His eyelids flutter once when the glancing moonlight first reaches them, and his closed eyes move, the bulge of his corneas dancing and darting around beneath his eyelids, casting flickering shadows around his eye sockets.
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