You will stop to stick your face into a gardened rose. Soon, you’ll catch your companion doing the same. Something like adoration blooms between you as you laugh over shared meals. Stories are appreciated, silences smooth, all feels paced with elegant understanding. Both and each of you breathe easy despite your only recent acquaintance. The gangly dog bounds and leaps, attentive to the second, affectionate without pride. What standards these creature have concocted for you! What hope.