In his arms she settled and relaxed like a little nestling after its first lessons learning to fly. It was so inviting to relieve herself and let him hold up her head, let him be worried about her balance, that she finally shared his joy over the chance he could carry her a little longer this time. Even the fact Michael decided where to go first and took her to the terrace instead of the storey seemed to be only a grain of sand in the machine. Wrapped around by the warmth of his own body and the blanket he got from her new room it was all safe and comfortable. So comfortable that when they became lost in each other's gaze instead of the stars they originally planned to watch, Allie broke the silence and chuckled again. She wasn't proud of her voice and sounds escaping from her throat but being silent seemed worse than anything else somehow.<br/>"It ss dam nn d so romm a nn tc, rig t?"<br/><br/>There are those situations when you don't know why you kill the mood with a joke - yet you feel an urge to do it. Alliana felt that too yet so hoped their first walk didn't become a victim of her silly sentence.<br/>This situation was even more vulnerable than her body or Austin's soul. And who cared about stars "like fireflies in the sky" when it was about the two of them, seeing through all the armours and disguises they ever created for themselves, one of them shielding himself with work, the other doing the same with acting like a clown.<br/>"Sorrr i" - she then gulped heavily and closed her eyes at last, instead of throwing another bomb of humour.<br/>With<em>this</em>man: she could quit being that clown - here there wasn't need for that. And so the world expanded for the two of them suddenly.<br/>They were those fireflies in the sky.<br/><br/>