THROUGH FOGS DEEP AND FIRES LONGThey’d met at an outdoors music festival in the sweaty heart of summer, noticing one another standing alone at the parking lot’s periphery while the throngs of people watched the stage and the band on it. She looked small and shy and cute, her summer dress clutching at her body in the humid night air. He was looking tall and gangly and more than a little drunk staggering a weaving line towards her observing him with her small dark eyes.
Their initial conversation easy, as if they’d known each other many years. Tipsy and wishing to impress her with his intelligence and quirky sense of romance, he’d told her, “Let’s hang out tonight – maybe we’ll stumble on an empyrean.” Explaining to her his definition of empyrean while she’d smiled at him with an amused pat
