an unrehearsed universe

Feigr

Danger beckoned. A bonfire gave off heat.
Traveler beware. Heat singes; meat burns.

The night was riddled with ghouls and littered with stars.
Her skin, opalescent. It rippled with the possibility of violence.

Fear of one could not obscure the charms of the other.
What warnings there were he ignored.

He gave himself up. In return, she swallowed him piecemeal.
A parting gift of pain, and the words to wield it. 

She said the heart often forgives. The mind forgets.
The gauze of distance softens.

It was not true that time blunted the sharpness of grief.
Thus he learned they could lie.

He had loved her. Loved her still. A lifetime of nights to come
and one question loomed.

What was he brave enough to wager?