Confessions in the Dark

~Rowena~

The faint, distant piano music faded away into the freezing night, taking the magic of our secluded waltz with it. The warbling notes thinned into silence, leaving Kaelar and me alone in the moonlit forest. The biting wind whipped through the bare winter branches, stripping away the residual heat of our dance. Without the distraction of the melody, the reality of the bitter cold set in f