Delilah

As he fell into a deep, supernatural sleep, she signaled the barber.

When Samson first came to her, he didn't come as a conqueror. He came as a man exhausted by his own legend. He was a giant of a man, muscles like knotted oak, with hair that fell in seven thick, sun-bleached braids down his back. To the Philistines, he was a monster who burned their fields; to Delilah, he was a puzzle. delilah

Delilah felt the silver coins pressing against her mind, but she also felt the heat of the man’s scalp beneath her fingers. She knew that by telling her, Samson was choosing an end. He was a man of war who wanted peace, even if that peace was a prison. As he fell into a deep, supernatural sleep,