Night Conversation

**The next evening**

The night of the full moon is fast approaching…

The promise that Prince Leonard made to spend that night with me had me staring up at the moon every single night before going to bed as if bounded by an unbreakable spell. Everyone could see that the moon was almost full. My heart leapt in my chest at the thought that this natural phenomenon would really occur every month without fail and so would the events associated to it.

Even standing on my balcony at night with the night wind howling all around me couldn’t cool down the heat that had started spreading in the pit of my stomach. The moonlight shining down from above made me think of Prince Leonard and everything that he said and did to me. My body seemed to have natural reactions of its own to the cycle of the moon just like it had been ingrained to be part of my biological system. At least, that was what I thought because I couldn’t find another explanation for what was happening to my body. The heat and throb