Something about this cove she had always loved was its privacy. There was a mystical quality about the whole area, so serene and so peaceful. The sky was deepening shades of blue and black with not a cloud in to spoil the view of the stars. The moon, full and brilliant in its silver radiance, climbed slowly higher. The sand was still warm from the sun, the chill that night brings not yet seeped into the cover. The breaking waves rhythmically crashed at the water's edge, caressing the sand as a lover would as it pulled back. She chuckled then, at the craziness of her idea, spreading her towel on the sand and kneeling on it to smooth it.
"Moon bathing," Val chuckled, "ah well, to heck with it."
Her honeyed laugh tickled the air, mingling with the waves and the distant call of gulls. Pulling off her denim trousers and linen shirt, she fashioned them into a pillow and placed them at the head of the towel. A quick adjust to her one-piece swim suit, she settled on the towel and looked up into the sky. Val was aware of the presence before she saw it. Raising her upper body and head off the towel, she looked around with knotted brows. Eyes opening wide and mouth dropping open, she was unable to do anything but stare as the figure moved towards her.
"Oh my.." she breathed, her eyes taking in the man that approached her.