Thanks SG. Really appreciate your comment. It's funny how most of the times I feel like I'm as much an expectator to my writing as anyone else. In cases like these I don't even think when I write. It all simply comes out full-formed and later on, when I edit it, it feels almost alien to me. Like I'm not responsible for it. This one (and in this, Crescent, you;re near the mark) came with a very distinct image in my head. That is unusual, since I don'y usually think in images. And it IS a kind of story, which is what makes it so prose-like in style. I hadn't noticed the nature agle, SG, that's a very interesting POV. And about the "waves" thing... well, I'm not even sure what that's about. I wasn't really thinking of sex or pain, really, when writing. But the word "lovers" was put in there in my head and would not be let out. Get my meaning?