Her eyes were filled with wonder. I got the impression that she had never been told that sort of thing.

"But I..." she said. I cut her off by touching my mouth to hers. After a moment of shock, she let her mouth open under mine.

"Close your eyes," I said with the air left in my lungs. She was unbelievably lovely and all mine right now. "Watch the light show."

"Light show?" she asked.

Instead of telling her what I meant, I showed her. I kissed her neck.

"The lights around us are mingling," she marveled. I bit my way along her jaw and felt her vocal cords vibrating with a light hand on her throat.

I leaned her back, settling my much heavier body on top of hers. I could feel her panting a little bit as I kissed my way down. I yanked her clothes off until she was naked beneath me. I pulled off my own clothes and settled between her legs.

"We had a bedroom last time," I told her.

"I like it like this, too," she whispered. She gestured at the lagoon and the emptiness. "It's nice."

Her breath came in as a quick gasp as I pushed inside of her. She felt good around me, wet and ready for a quick bit of loving outside. She arched her back as I seated myself fully inside of her, moaning gently. I bit the upper curve of one breast and she screamed, her voice echoing off the mountains for only the two of us to hear. She orgasmed beneath me, shaking with the force of it.

When she opened her eyes again, I leaned back and crossed her legs at the ankle.

"What are you doing?"

"Something new." I put one hand around her ankles to hold them together, then I began my rhythm again. She couldn't move much in this position.

"Feel," I told her. "And look at what we are together."

"I can see stars," she said, her eyes taking in the lovely colors that we created when our auras overlapped.

"It's all you," I said.

"And you," she replied, although she was nearly out of breath.

Something inside of me tightened, then I picked up the pace. I should have worried about the impact of the rough ground on her soft back, but all I could do was think about the flame inside of me burning and bursting into something with the force of a thousand suns. I spilled inside of her and pulled out.

"We don't have sonic shower," she observed.

"We can go back into the ship," I said. "We'd probably get arrested for contaminating fresh water."

We looked at each other and burst out laughing. It was true, but for some reason it seemed incredibly silly. Here we were, part Draka and Yore, sitting in the middle of nowhere and thinking about the laws that applied elsewhere. And in another place, maybe we would have had to think about them. But right here and now, we were the only people on the planet.

Arienne leaned forward and kissed my collarbone. "Let's go back to the ship."

She gathered our clothes and made them into a bundle. I pulled her into my arms and whistled as I carried her back to the ship. She smelled like a mixture of both of us.

Abruptly, I thought about what a baby would be like. I hoped that the baby would have Arienne's eyes and some of our Yore capabilities. With a quarter Draka in the mix, though, would the baby be able to shift into a dragon?

"Can you shift into smoke or dragon form?"

Arienne blinked up at me. We were almost back at the ship.

"I can become smoke, but I don't really enjoy being a dragon. I'm such a klutz as it is, I can't imagine the damage I'd do in dragon form."

"I see," I said to her.

"Why do you ask?"

I kissed her mouth. "I was just curious."

We finally reached the ship. After I put her back on her feet, we ported upwards. We ran for the sonic shower and let it wash away everything that we'd done. I charted a course back to the city. When I was done, I saw that Arienne was in the small bedroom. She patted a spot next to her on the bed. I wrapped my body around her much smaller one.

"I wish this was real life," she confessed. I kissed the back of her neck and felt her body flex like a cat's in the sun.

"When we're together, I can believe it's real." I stroked her cheek and knew I was one of the luckiest men in the world.