A meeting of thoughts.
Could changing her thoughts change the way she saw his intentions? Should she step out from the shadows: exposing herself to him: or surrender to a longing of independence.
What does all this mean?; without the knowledge of the coming and goings in either her mind and or that of both (and the authors?)
Ask yourself: can a thought be changed if the owner of that thought is under the age of 8: or over the age of ninety-eight?
Does independence of little knowledge when only 8: compare to the forgotten combined experiences with age. Readers at 8 may use fingers to travel from word to word (written) across pages: containing syllables and sketches: of familiar images (of the narrative,) when the ninety-eight year old: skips unfamiliar words and phases while using the excuse of tired eyes.
This returns us to the women in the shadows: whom is puzzled by the need to surrender herself to a stranger: and the need to change her thoughts. Is the stranger aware of this women: within the shadows: and her struggle with changeable thoughts: and her need to earn a living: by coming out of the shadows: when a stranger (of any age and nationality,) finds himself on the edge of a decision.
Rest assured these people of which we are discussing: are neither 8 nor ninety-eight. She is seventeen. Ah!: you not think (as I,) girls who are seventeen: are at their finest age.
Is she a forgotten daughter of poor (or rich ) parents? Yet we have no clues to this understanding: just assumptions: based on other narratives: which have been read and experiences learnt. So the reader can assume she is of that age.
He on the other hand could be between eighteen and ninety-eight. If one can believe a man of that age: would be out at this time of night.
Have we established the time of day? No: we have not; we have assumed it is night: for shadows have been mentioned; to have shadows there must be lights.
As a reader you may have an idea of the situation of which these two soles find themselves. She a young women standing within a shadow: and he is a male: lurking on the edge of that very shadow. How could two people within touching distance: not be aware of each other's needs. Yet as a reader we are well aware.
Humans: as all species (from the smallest creature to the largest,) all know when an attraction has been advertised; and so it is with these two soles. No thoughts were changed. No surrendering was necessary. No independence (by either,) was forfeited. No harm to either was surrendered. Just a moment in time with physical contact for a monetary exchange took place.
'Evening,' was his first word from the other side of the light. The single word floated through and into the dark: carry no more weight than a white feather. Her perfume (of a cheap brand,) was the line drawn in the sand between her cervix and his sheath.
Are names required between lovers: engaged couples: married or just partners?: for when under sheets of silk and upon pillows of lavender. The need is not.
Maybe so in civilised encounters carried out within hotel walls with room service: yet not in shadows off back streets of a major city.
The eighteen year old has not a name in her thoughts of this stranger who stands in the light. It is independence of being able to expose herself; so as to receive a monetary reward in doing so for the short time of volubility and danger.
Ask yourself. Should a touch to an eight year old girl: hold the same sensation? As the same touch to an eighteen year old girl? If the touch is given: by the hand of a male: who is a year either side of hers? Will the touch be different: from of a male twice her age?
Wait I hear you say. What if the person touching or being touched. Is of the same sex?
