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She had released him from a prison. His heart welled over with gratitude. The sharp edge of a new experience had severed him from past and future. There was only the present. It seemed to him that he had never before seen the crystal magic of sunrise, felt the warm velvet on a horse's neck, smelt the heat burning over moist earth. Through an awakened sensuality--his heritage from a long line of hot-blooded Cabells--he found his way back into the world.
And Emma? She remained just beyond the touch of his understanding. Only sometimes in the night she would clutch him with little cries, half of desire, half of fear, that died away as he caressed her. Apart from this, she said very little.