Next he heard her moving through the rest of the house, turning off lights, running water, saying something in another room.She turned to the bedroom.Her robe was old, made of silk, the color of red wine. Then she got into bed and lay close to him. " I just want to sleep,"he told her.But there was this silk material next to him.He felt how cool and soft the silk was, cool silk over warm body.
In the night he heard a child cough, and he swam up through a sea of dreams to answer.