“I really do love you,” she told him. “It’s kind of astonishing.”
“I’m a hell of a catch. Really better than Olyphant. Where we dig in, that’s just details. We’ll work them out.”
She stopped and, trusting them both, linked her arms around his neck. “We’ll work them out,” she repeated.
“Hey!” L.B. shouted across the field. “Thought you’d want to know, they’ve got her contained. They caught her, and they’re taking her down.”
“Go Zulies,” Gull called back.
She grinned at him. More good news, she thought. They’d go in soon, give their own good news to her father, to their family.
But for now, she’d caught her own fire and wanted to walk awhile sharing the warmth of it, just with him, under the rising moon.