Emma de Caunes in Sand Castles

Old couples have rituals, nothing scares them, and they've gone far enough on this point.

Usually they don't play, they don't talk to each other, but now they just want to fit in, to be one.

It won't last long because they want to, it's been so long.

And Leonor clings to him, she screams, he holds back, she grits her teeth.

It's so good, he thinks, I missed it so much.