You crouch at her rear, the warm mists of her flowing tail provoking an illusion of dampness about your ankles. You reach out and place your hands around her waist again, about where you started, and look up the length of her body in line with her spine, taking in how it’s changed with your work and her relaxation, how her long and slender neck extends forward like that, how her prodigious wingspan is fully spread across the floor…