Chapter 45: You Found Me
Maximus chuckled. "You are admirable. But you are better than the moon."
"Better than the moon? How?" she asked.
She is but a simple human and she loved flattery as much as every other person. And she wished to know more of his thoughts to understand if he’s just loose with his words without meaning anything.
"I once had a wise friend," Maximus kissed her head and rested his chin on the crown of her head softly.
She hated being short but she wouldn’t say that being in his embrace like this is bad.
"That friend proposed something very new to me...well, it was new to most of us..."
There was a pause and Felixa tried to turn and look at his face but he continued, not letting her see his face.
"The moon has no light of its own- my friend said..." he breathed out.
Felixa had a feeling that he is smiling. But he didn’t let her look at his face even if she tried. She felt something stirring inside her head as she started to remember something. And Maximus continued.
"The moon only reflects the light of the sun. I don’t exactly know how it happens but... I do believe that the moon is conveniently placed so that it illuminates in the absence of the sun and as it revolves around the earth..."
Felixa couldn’t hear him well as she remembered Tubby’s laugh. They were sitting at the top of a mountain in front of the fire and she suddenly had that thought when she was looking at the moon. Luke heard Tubby’s laugh and came closer. Tubby repeated what she said and Luke just stared at the moon.
’Maybe... Still, the moon is the hero of the night,’ Luke said and walked away.