
DreamlandsBeside a forest whose trees were of shadow and smoke, and where the spaces between were full of soft golden light, lay a still lake of liquid silver. The sun was setting over the hills, the moon, heavy and pregnant, rose over the waters. Yet it was not the moon, for that simple satellite had no rings encircling it. Still, it rode high into the sky, its image reflected in the lake, whose waters left behind a metallic sheen that was more than moisture on Lillian's fingers when she traced her hand across its surface. She stared up at the moon that was not a moon, the silhouettes of strange birds flying across its face before disappearing into thDreamlands in Romance More Like This