I love "the pause between her sips" unusual...usually there is the sip that is the pause! Excellent... then the "ice-water" followed by "glistening" ...very watery eye imagery. "Caresses" by the eyes... being like "orbs of light" ...also unusual and unexpected, penetrating thus to the core of feeling! Again,unususal: the "arcane scribbles" being below...and and trying to raise themselves over the head... (wonderful) where the "council of logicians" resides...one can almost see them there, with their pens poised in that moment of silence!!