William looked towards the East as he waited for the sun to rise. It was still dark, and the air was quite chilly, but the Half-Elf didn't mind it one bit.
Ashe had taken the initiative to show William how much she had missed him, which caught him completely by surprise. They said that "absence makes the heart grow fonder", and the red-headed boy experienced first hand how a mermaid showed her affection to her significant other.
Although Ashe could only transform into her true form for three hours a day, it was a different story in William's Spiritual World. She could stay in her true form for as long as she wanted in that world where there were no barriers between the two of them.
Whenever William thought back to when he and Ashe first met, a smile would always appear on his face.
'She will probably wake up around noon,' William grinned after thinking about his exhausted lover, who was still sleeping in their warm and comfortable bed.
