Feeling Heroic

no, he cannot recall having felt this good, this heroic before. the warm swirl of her lilting laughter deliciously lifts him up; and he still cannot believe that he can really make her laugh; with amused chuckle, she grins expectantly, hanging on to every word he says and, though he is still half-way through the joke, it seems that mirth bubbles up from her tummy to her lungs, bursting in giggles and guffaws of iridescent joy in her throat; no, he cannot recall having felt this good, this heroic before.