“I would gladly take any challenge to shear your time.” He said with a smile bringing her again towards the bed.

Her blush deepened as she watched him, moving with him as though he was current and she was a leaf caught in the waters, “Will you hint st what it is you’re so keen to show me?”

“I wish to show you the deeper mysteries and see if I still hold your interest.” He said with a smile gestureing to the bed they sheared through the night.

She sat on the edge of the bed before swinging her long smooth legs onto the silken sheets, “There are so many intriguing things about that statement alone.” She offered a faint smile, “And with you, how could my interest wane?”

“Then the nights to come hold much promise for us, leave the musings of the inconvenience be addressed by me I wish for you to keep your mind focused on us and the promise of future nights to come.” He laid back against the bed seemingly content with a smile on his face.

She pulled herself against him and relaxed her head on one side of his chest, “When I wake tomorrow night, do you promise not to be a dream?”

“All that you have seen is real, all that you felt is true, come the evening I shall still be here and the love we sheared shall still be with us.” He nuzzled against her as he spoke.

She sighed happily, all her worries fading in the moment. She could feel the pull of the day sleep tugging at the edges of her mind. “I love you my Captain.”

“Sleep well my sea Lilly, my love.” His words came out softly “may our dreams find one another.”

The sun lulled the Dead to sleep yet Selene’s dreams were not normal ones twisted by the Hunger of the Beast but rather vast cosmic things she saw things come in to creation around her only to fade away with time, the scope of the universe around her was so utterly beyond anything she had previously experienced.

“Open your eyes Selene” the familiar voice of Aurelio echoed in her mind only for the snap of night to awaken her.

As struck by shock, she bolted upright, rested but full of wonder, “What’s happened?” She looked around until her gaze found Aurelio, “It’s night already..”

“Another day has passed and Night has blessed me with visions of you.” He said with a smile stretching as his strength came to him “How did you find your rest?”

“It was incredible! I’d never experienced dreams as I did this day, not even as the unruly child that I had been so long ago.” She remained sitting up, staring  into an unseen distance, “I mean, I have no idea where I would even begin to describe anything that had imagined through my mind.”

“You need not explain anything you were not alone in such present thoughts, I am surprised our reunion allowed us to have such pleasures.” He said as he looked around the room still thrown about from thei night before.

Selene pulled her gaze back into the moment, “Seems we’ve made quite a mess last night.” She blushed.

“Nothing I would change a second of if only to have more time with you.” He said with a smile, he held her close as the movement of the ship could now be felt. “It seems that the hourglass is against us this evening.”

She huddled against him, “The waters of Venice feel rough this evening, almost as though we’ve been carried to sea.” She commented nervously before kissing his chest.

His gaze peered out of the window before turning his attention to Selene “The tide is shifting and we move against the current yet we are not long from port.” He kissed her forehead “It is as if fate is trying to keep us adrift in our free dream.”

She shivered against him, recalling the chilling night of the storm from decades ago, “You don’t suppose the weather will turn do you?”

“I know these waters and winds like no other we are in the hands of safety and shelter the only wish I might have of the sea is that it might grant us more time with one another.” He said as he pulled her in to his embrace “will you be traveling with your acquaintances tonight or shall I find you an alternative arrangements?”

She nuzzled into his embrace, drawing her arms around him tightly, “I should travel with them. I will need to do some damage control with Xaver and the sooner, the better.”

“In the event you need me for anything I want you to break this.” He grabbed a small glass ball from the night stand with what seemed to be snow suspended with in it. “It will notify me of your location instantly.” He seemed to hold some concern possibly even distrust of Selene’s entourage as he presented the small item.

She took the orb carefully, holding her breath as she examined it.

“It’s beautiful... How could I possibly want to break something so marvelous, particularly when it’s from you...” her intense gaze flickered him with a blush tinting her cheeks, “Although if it does actually bring you to me...”

“Think of it as a gift whose function I hope goes unused.” He said with a smile “Will you be able to talk your brooding associate down or shall I keep my presence available to you later ?”

“He will not harm me, but I know he’s not thrilled about what he saw.” She lamented, entranced by the crystal as she turned it gently her grasp, “My apologies for his intrusion last night. It was probably my request that caused him to search.”