Birth Mirror

    When he looked at her, he saw the whole universe.  He saw how the atoms in her body came from the salt of the Earth and the nutrients of its growth.  Every organ had once been part of a blade of grass, a piece of dirt in the soil, or the muscle of an animal.  Before that they'd come from the sun, which had given birth to all the complex elements interacting inside her, like sodium, potassium, and iron.  These in turn were born from the splitting of the fundamental two, hydrogen and helium, that burned so brightly in its core.  Both these elements had come into being prior to a supernova that had created the sun about five billion years ago.  Even before this they'd been part of a vast cloud that had condensed into the galaxy we now call the Milky Way.  They'd done this across the whole universe, back when it had nothing but gas everywhere.  The gas had expanded and cooled after the explosion of the Big Bang, proliferating itself to all corners of the obsidian frontier.  As he looked into the woman's black eyes, he saw the constituents of the first atoms forming in deep space, after they'd been taken apart from the whole during the birth of the universe.  You could say that when he looked at her, he looked at everything else that made up the cosmos, for everything was made of the same material when the universe was born.  She was a birth mirror, a being who contained the same mysterious elements that created life before reproduction existed.