Opaque

He'd lived in a world of transparent beings whose thoughts ran rampant through his mind, unbidden and unwelcome. And he had been repulsed by the uninterrupted beating of the self absorbed.

Yet she was so very different from them. In a world of transparent beings, she was opaque. Unable to see through her, he was left breathless by the need to experience what he knew would taste so very pure.

But it was this inability that had drawn him closer to her in the first place.

He'll live. Maybe he'll like surprises, anyway. She colours his world like no other.