He watched her as her head bowed wondering if she was changing her mind about their union. He knew she had been gifted to the king but had chosen him instead. She had done this despite the fact that they would be made to leave their respective schools and exiled from the kingdom by their king.
The temple filled with a luminous light as if the walls were glowing with a warm golden-white color. A rainbow of colors swirled before his eyes as the colors wrapped around their two bodies. He thought he was hallucinating and closed his eyes for a moment. When he opened them he saw more than he expected.
Amidst the swirling colors she glowed brightly from within with a brilliant violet-white light. Her feathery wings had appeared and she had opened her brilliant blue eyes. She was divine, regal and heavenly.