Erika stayed with Nathan for the next five days and nights. She disappeared during the days, but was back every night arriving on his doorstep at sunset smiling at him with her beautiful blue eyes.

  He tried asking her about herself but she was very vague with her answers, but in the end Nathan didn’t really care because for the next five nights they had mind blowing sex every night. She had an insatiable appetite leaving him exhausted at the end of each session.

  “You never seem as tired out as I am after we’ve had sex,” he said to her one night, “How do you do it?”

  “That’s simple, Nathan,” she whispered seductively, “Every morning at sunrise I renew myself. The Goddess of Dawn is immortal you know.”

  Nathan laughed, “You have such a great sense of humour, honey,” he said, “But now I have to ask you something serious. What about us? Are we an item? I mean are we a serious couple like boyfriend and girlfriend?”

  Erika looked at him for several seconds, then shook her head sadly. “I’m only here for seven days, then I must go home.”

  “You mean to Scotland?”

  “Not to Scotland. I live much further away than that.”

  “But you can’t leave me. I love you.”

  “I’m sorry, Nathan, but I am only allowed seven days here.”

  Nathan tried to get more information out of her, but she refused to tell him anything more.

  The next night was their last night together.

  When they finished making love she broke the news.

  Nathan, in the morning when I renew, I will fly back home.

  “Where is home?” he asked her desperately one more time.

  “To my parents Hyperion and Theia. They live in the palace of the gods.”

  Nathan looked at her amazed. “You can’t be serious.”

  “Once every one hundred years I’m allowed to spend one week here with mortals and to take a lover, but while I am here I have to continue my work every morning at dawn.”

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  “What work?”

  “At dawn I fly into the sky in my chariot and bring the sun up from its resting place. That’s why I am called the Goddess of Dawn. I’ve been doing this every morning for a thousand years. And my real name is not Erika. I am usually called Eos or Aurora. I prefer Aurora.”

  “Do you have any other powers?” Nathan asked, hardly believing what he was hearing.

  “I can transform people who mean me harm. Remember those three men who attacked me the first night we met? I turned them into insects.”

  “You’ve got to be joking,” Nathan gasped, “but do you really have to go?”

  “Yes, Nathan, I do. When you wake up in the morning I’ll be gone. But we still have tonight together.”

  Nathan refused to believe what Erika had just told him, but he lay down with her and they both fell asleep wrapped in each other’s arms.

  A noise awoke him at five thirty. He looked up to see Erika dressed and walking out of the room carrying her case.

  “Erika, wait,” he called. He jumped up and threw on a robe. He dashed out the front door, and stopped in shock at the scene in front of him.

  A chariot. There was a glowing golden chariot on his front lawn! Erika was sitting in it. She waved to him.

  “Goodbye, Nathan,” she called, “Remember me as Aurora, your goddess.”

  “No, don’t go,” he called back, but the chariot was already rising into the sky, then it moved quickly off to the east and disappeared.

  Nathan stood there staring at the sky, not believing what he had just seen.

  A few moments later the first rays of sunlight appeared from the horizon.

  The Goddess of Dawn had done her job one more time.