Thanks to the Merriam-Webster Word of the day, Astra/Alex and interdigitate: to become interlocked like the fingers of folded hands.
Yo General Danvers isn’t usually my jam but like, whatevs, sign me up. Oh my fucking god, that word is cute as shit. Well picked anon, applause for you.
Are Astra’s eyes hazel???? I dunno, they are now!!!!!!!!!!!
They take a millennium to gravitate together, through stars and galaxies, their lives slip together, unnoticeable until it’s far too late. Like the unending flow of sand down an hourglass, they slide closer to each other.
Then it happens, but it’s not a bang, not a crash, nothing violent at all. But oh, oh the universe shakes on its axis anyway. Like fingers stitching together, they interdigitate.
Just a kiss is all it takes, a press of warm lips, and everything seems so right. So whole and when Alex opens her eyes, heavens above, the world’s in color again. Beautiful.