"When I first met her, I couldn't take my eyes away from her. As the faint glow of a tree overhead cast itself on her, she seemed to sparkle. It was like she belonged in the between, like she had to have been born there. Of course she wasn't, but the patches of blue and green hues in her fur were so aligned with that world. I found myself staring.

She radiates a kind of beauty that the normal world cannot. She's also modest, I learned early on. She hated compliments - she didn't believe I meant them. Of course, I didn't give up. I learned she loved to talk about anything but herself, and the less I talked about her and how much I really admired her, the more she started to admire me.

In the end, we were the perfect match. She learned I wasn't under the lull of her ability. She wasn't making me love her. I just did. And I still do.

She loved the between and its escape from reality, so we eventually learned to live there as best possible. It wasn't easy, of course. Nothing there was made for living. It was all so very beautiful, but also so very much apart from what we, from the normal world, need. Still, it was easy enough to carry things there. To build a home and a life. And to start a family. A family that, we learned, took on far too many aspects of the between for it to not have been slowly effecting us as well."