Night was dark and sky under which they lay was full of
stars whose light stabbed into hearts.
"I saw her again," he whispered to darkness and his hands
trembled, maybe because of cold, maybe because of fear. She
moved closer to him.
"Whom?"
"Her."
"You had a dream, my little fool, just a dream. Come, come
closer, I'll hug you."
She hugged him.
"A dream?" He doubted it.
"A dream. You fell asleep and had a dream."
"But why, why about her? Isn't that strange to dream about
her every night?"
She didn't answer; instead she caressed and kissed him. He
replied to her kiss and then they lay close to each other,
looked at the sky until he started to fall asleep again.

XX

"You come to me every night. Who are you? Do I know you? She
says you're just a dream. Are you really just that? Why do
you smile? What's hidden behind that smile? What secret?"
"Uncovered secret is not so tempting anymore, is it? It's
not so... exciting..."
"Won't you tell me more?"
"No, I'll rather kiss you."
"Yes!"

XX

He woke up. Stars shone and she lay next to him without
motion.
"She was here again," he exclaimed touching curls of her
midnight black hair.
"She?"
"Yes."
She looked at him and her eyes glossed in the darkness.
"I wanted her to tell me who she is."
Her face approached his.
"And?" She muttered to his ear, "what did she say?"
"Nothing," he answered, " she just kissed me. And I liked
that, I liked that long kiss of hers."
She leaned her head against his shoulder.
"Talk. Why did you like that kiss?"
"I don't know. It was... different."
"Not like mine?"
He stroked her.
"No, completely different. I don't claim better, just
different. I can't describe it. I loved that kiss and wished
she'd never stop, never, she'd kiss me like that forever and
at the same time I was scared. I wished she'd stop
immediately, go away, never come back."
"Oh."

XX

"You just kiss me. Why don't you answer? Are you coming just
to kiss? Who are you, my dark lady?"
"I'm nobody and nothing."
"Are you gonna kiss me again?"
"Yes. Do you like it?"
"Yes! No!! Yes!!!"

XX

He woke up. The night was getting darker, clouds rushed
through the sky, covering burning light of the stars.
"Dreams are weird, my love," he said.
"Again you dreamt about your unknown beauty? I'm starting to
resent it, I'll be jealous."
He put his arms around her and inhaled her smell, charming
as ever, exciting.
"Be jealous of a dream? I love only you, you know that," he
smiled and his hands traveled all over her body.
"I know," she let him caress her.
"But when I think about it, she looks like you, kind of,
that girl from my dream."
"Oh, does she?" She said and stretched with delight. "In
that case I think I can explain your dreams, my little
fool."
"Can you?"
"Yes. I think you long for something new."
"Something new?"
"Mhm. In sex. You dream about me and in those dreams I kiss
you, as you say I kiss you different way. And it excites
you. I kiss you differently. You just want a change. But you
are ashamed to suggest it. What do you say?"
"I don't know..."
"But I know. Come, we'll try to do something about that, my
little fool."
"Yes?"
They hugged.

XX

"Please, reveal it to me, who are you? Why do you visit me
and kiss me in the darkness? Your kisses burn, they hurt me,
pain me beyond the threshold of pain."
"Where the pain ends delight starts."
"Why do you do that?"
"Do you want that?"
"Yes!"
"Then don't ask, don't want to know."
"But I want to know. Who are you, you with eyes glimmering,
you, lady of suffering and heavenly delight?"
"I'm she whose eyes combust hearts."
"I know that."
"So why do you ask?"
"I want to know who you are in fact. Why do your kisses make
me weak, why do I feel sucked out by your existence, why do
I think I'm losing my soul? Why?"
"No, don't want to know. Don't want to know."
"I want to!!!"
"You don't... My little fool..."

XX

He opened his eyes wide and gasped.
"You!" He shrieked. "You?"
She was bending down over him, her eyes glowed with vivid
light, so bright everything else seemed to be shadowed by
it.
"Oh," she sighed, "So, you know already. Satisfied?"
She smiled and her teeth glittered as she approached his
neck to kiss him for the last time.