Desire
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Desire is of medium height. It is unlikely that any portrait will ever do Desire justice, since to see her (or him) is to love him (or her),- passionately,painfully, to the exclusion of all else. Desire smells almost subliminally of summer peaches, and casts two shadows:one black and sharp-edged, the other translucent and forever wavering, like a heat haze. Desire smiles in brief flashes, like sunlight glinting from a knife-edge. And there is much else that is knife-like about Desire. Never a possesion, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yelllow wine:
Neil Gaiman: Season of Mists
