Sublime

She is an abyss that he can reach into, an empty space for him to fill.

bucolic

palimpsest

chiaroscuro).

infinitesimally

Of being a mortal creature who was essentially alone but needed the myth of togetherness with others. Friends, children, lovers. It was an attractive myth. It was a myth you could easily inhabit.

She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.