I closed my eyes to sink into darkness, but the light blazing from her eyes pulled me back to wakefulness. I knew that vast galaxies stretched between us. I knew that touching her was an impossible dream. Yet, in the endless cold of this universe, I felt the warmth of her gaze, like golden honey flowing over a bed of ice. If only time would stop in this moment, and I, like the freest prisoner of an eternal sentence, could remain within the cage of her fingers, bathed in the glow of her sunlit eyes, never slipping away from this Vespera. I must not surrender to sleep… If I do, this dream may shatter...

Original: Digital drawing with Photoshop and Ipad 4141 x 4256 - JPG