Their first night:

I never thought something like this would happen to us, he said, his hand resting in her heartbeat.

She rolled toward him. The atoms in his skin spread out, making room for her breath to seep through.

I knew, she said.

How did you know?

The first time we ever met, standing on that path, you were already so familiar to me, like we had known one another forever.

But we had never met before.

That’s how I knew something like this would have to happen to us.

So we would know each other forever?

Before you were born, I knew you.

I see you, he said. / I see you.