creepy-hollow

Colors shift like smoke within the branch beneath our feet. Sprites jump from leaf to leaf, leaving sprinklings of glittery dust in the air behind them. Droplets of water are strung like pearls from the silver strands of a spider__ web. Bluebottle glow-bugs stick to the leaves and branches, lighting up the night with their blue-green bodies. And high above us, clouds are draped like sashes of color across the sky. Amethyst, azure, jade.

I angle my head down and peer up at him through my lashes in what I hope is an alluring manner. I have zero experience in this area though, so it__ possible I look like a total moron.

You guys dated, didn__ you?___re you insane? Not even if the continuation of our kind depended on it would I be tempted to do something so awful.

Is that what you were doing in my room?_ he asks after a moment.I sigh. Why am I telling him any of this? __es. I was on assignment.___ was your assignment?___es._ He hesitates a moment, then grins. __hat__ kind of hot.