Already he had led her to heights of bliss she had never imagined and broken the dams that had held her creativity impounded to the point she could hardly paint. Might she not dare to hope he would be willing to remain with her for a while, even for the years left to her in this life? Surely, after all the eons he had waited, that would be but a moment in his span of time. Yet he had said he needed to become a physical entity once more in order to undo a mistake he had made, to correct a tragic error. Was that all? Once such task was done, would he have no purpose or desire to remain in the earthly plane? If that were the case, perhaps she did not want to rush the process of bringing him into it again. What a quandary! He seemed to feel her tension build as she mulled over these tangled