one by one, they shed each layer of their clothing until they were bare. his touches were nearly reverent as he revealed more and more of her to him, and she drank in the sight of his body in the moonlight trickling from between the curtains: his broad shoulders, the pale white scars running across his chest. he released her hair from its bun, the curls tumbling across her neck, and removed her makeup with a whispered incantation.