as lovers go

Soul bonded. Eris sighed longingly. She loved the way it sounded when he said it - like it was real. A simple fact. "Of course," she agreed, closing her eyes. His touch felt so good, like it soothed an itch only he knew she had. "If we were being tested, did we pass?" she asked quietly. Their words, however soft, echoed in the cavern behind the falls. Even then they were barely louder than the rushing water. You had to listen carefully to separate voices from the waterfall. It gave their entire exchange an ethereal kind of quality.

Eris circled Oxide, pressing her body to his all the way around. If only she could rub a piece of herself off on him that they would always be together. "Promise you'll never leave again," she asked suddenly. "Was it worth it, anyway? Our time apart?' He was a wandered and a loner at heart, but Eris could tell that his walkabout hadn't exactly gone as planned. Otherwise, why would he have returned at all?