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As the lovers awakened, each recalled a thread of the lives they left behind. Kate-Amee was stronger than she remembered herself being, as if her body had just completed a year of athletic training. She had to look in the mirror. “Do I really look like this?”

Reuban laughed, came closer, whispered, “Yes.” He took her hand, very slowly, attentively, as if he had never touched something so exquisite. His energy wrapped around her and persuaded her body to surrender to the dance. They glided without shoes or scarves or clothing into a unity of movement like tall grasses in the wind.

“Let us not disturb their reverie,” said Wren. “Here all acts are respected. All are equal, as we can no longer separate work from play. There is no poison to fear, no hate, no greed.”

Shae said, “I have long prayed for this, but somehow did not imagine the transition to be as quick nor as pervasive. Everything has changed just enough on the one hand to feel familiar, and on the other to be so vastly superior to all prior experiences. I can hardly believe it has occurred. Yet, here we are. I look at you and see only God.”

“I see not only a most beautiful woman,” responded Wren, but an illumined soul. Your light permeates my body as if all barriers have dissolved. What’s more, I do not feel this as an intrusion, but rather as a fulfillment of all desires.”

“Let us be with this now in silence.”