Aftermath
an excerpt

He kissed her gently on the lips then on her forehead and snuck out between the brush, elegantly like a panther or a gazelle, Aura could not decide which and her mind conjured a gazelle panther hybrid that looked hilarious. She felt giddy and slapped a ahand over heer mouth so as not to give herself away. She sat down between the two huts and waited. Time passed like molasses. That’s why it is relative, stupid, she thought to herself and muttered about relativity and how she hated it. Einstein annoyed her, but he did not matter, since she was feeling so giddy