Then Lyra took one of those little red fruits. With a fast-beating heart, she turned to him and said, “Will.”
And she lifted the fruit gently to his mouth.
She could see from his eyes that he knew at once what she meant, and that he was too joyful to speak. her fingers were still at his lips, and he felt them tremble, and he put his own hand up to hold hers there, and then neither of them could look; they were confused; they were brimming with happiness.
Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened, they were clinging together, blindly pressing their faces toward each other.
The Amber Spyglass, Chapter Thirty-Five: Over the Hills and Far Away (2000) // His Dark Materials, Season Three, Episode Eight: The Botanic Garden (2022)
