Once again, he sat in his window. It was, by far, his favorite mediation spot. After he meditated, he thought to himself that he might practice his image scrying. So he opened his eyes wide and blanked his mind. Images immediately assaulted him from all the winds swirling around Aria’s tower. Carefully, he filtered out the boring ones and the just plain weird ones. Eventually, his eyes fell upon a drift of wind from a fair in a distant city. He practiced focusing on all the different costumes and banners.
After a time, he decided it was enough and pulled out of the visions. Once again he carefully got out of the window and threw the cushions in a corner. Then he looked at his clock. 2255?! “I’ve got to get down there!” Momj exclaimed, alarmed.
And so he hurriedly pulled on his shoes, slipped out of his room, and clattered down the stairs. Coming out onto the roof deck, Momj saw Darice standing on the end of the deck. “Hey, Darice!” he called softly to her, remembering that she abhorred loud noises. She turned toward him and waved him over. He trotted over to her and grinned down at her.
She smiled up at him. “Nice night, isn’t it?”
“Yeah,” Momj replied.
She looked up at the stars. “I think it’s fun to make shapes out of the spaces between the stars,” Darice told him.
“That’s so much like you,” Momj told her with a smile. And so they sat down and looked at the stars, and the spaces between them, for a while.
After a time Momj started yawning. “Oh,” Darice murmured softly when she realized that she was keeping him up. “Do you want to go to bed now?”
Yawning especially largely, Momj said, “That’s not a bad idea. It is late for me after all.”
“Well, good night.”
“Yeah. Night.”
Momj turned to go back inside, but Darice caught his arm. She pulled him down and softly kissed his lips. Then she turned and nearly ran back inside. Momj just stood there in shock for a while before slowly going back inside and going to bed.
While he was turning out the light, he thought to himself, ‘Man, what a day this has been. Getting in trouble, going to town, a major revelation from Aria, and… my first kiss.’
After that, he slipped into bed and quickly fell asleep, ready for another day in the life of Momj.