the kiss (part 2)
II. THE KISS What happened afterwards (after, that is, that improbable moment when Rayna Kisley found herself curtsying before the man before whom her heart, for some reason, swooned, though she barely knew this overdressed, cerulean-eyed stranger, didn't know him at all, in fact, except for the fact that something about him had seemed hauntingly familiar all along), Rayna later found that she had no memory of. It was Sara who had discovered her, weirdly frozen in that very pose of elegant submission-- which Rayna had never before assumed in her life, had never felt compelled to assume, though she realized now that it was because no man had previously drawn such a gesture out from the depths of her feminine spirit-- and had urged her to "come back to earth." Indeed, Rayna had seemingly drifted into some kind of trance state, one which enabled her to remain in the curtsying posture for who knows how long (several minutes, perhaps even an hour?), her eyes d...