She'd always taken to the skies, lost herself in their abundant wonder, and yet still she found herself standing close, wings drawn into hiding, nerves piled high.

He was unlike any man she'd ever gotten the chance to know; he was kind and gentle, he saw the world through a much brighter yet still realistic lens than other men she'd met, and he cared about her.

Amelia wasn't blind to the chocolate chip cookies or the sweet pies he baked for her from his expertise at helping his best friend out at the bake shop that Feliks's owned.

She wasn't ignorant to the sweet baked goods and what they could possibly mean beyond just a sweet taste of the treats that he brought yet she listened as if she'd never known, the air had that kind of static, so unlike any that she'd ever known.

Amelia had always stood tall, knew that the skies belonged to her, and yet the others of her kind and so much more.

Her skin buzzed and blushed as she listened to Toris's soft whisper before it picked up confident volume.

"Amelia, I've always loved meeting up with you here, talking to you, and yet there was always something that I never told you then. I am falling more in love with you by the day, and I was hoping that you might return my feelings." His voice was passionate in such a gentle way that it caused Amelia's heart to pick up the steady tempo in its beats.

"I feel the same!" It was a small admittance compared to the beautiful one that had brought tears to her eyes.

Amelia leaned forward and met his lips with hers in the sudden desire to always be connected, to always remain together; he was more than the skies could ever mean to her yet she didn't have a way to speak up and say that to him.

Her eyes brightened even when they pulled back just a short few, treasured seconds later; her eyes matched the blue of her domain, became almost like the gravity that held them down here as long as she didn't choose to take to the sky and leave him far behind.

She smiled and that smile resonated across Toris's heart, sent it into a frenzied rhythm unparalleled.

Amelia always seemed as if she knew somehow what he was feeling, the way his heart thumped in his rib cage.

When she pulled near for a second kiss, he held her tightly yet gently to himself as he returned it, feeling every last bit of her energy pool into the kiss, into loving him; he felt happier than even the day that they'd first met when she'd appeared out of the skies as if she were an angel though she wasn't.

Amelia is a bird woman in the gentle way the term encompassed her though Toris definitely was human; they'd fallen for each other regardless of their different worlds.

All there was to do now was hold on tight as it surely would be difficult but worth every second of it.

She felt warmer than anyone ever seemed to be as if she brought the sun's warm flames in a much healthier way to life along his veins.

Toris couldn't help smiling, feeling joy unparalleled by the world.