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[longwillows]

reach out?

the smell of fresh water in dry desert air. the feeling of cautious curiosity. a place as dangerous as it is resplendent.

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[longwillows]

[She allows him to lead her, motions guided by his hand at her back and his toes at her feet, but she doesn't release him for a second. He is kept captive in the loop of his own vest, watched with hungry intent, her eyes unmoved with every step closer to the open window.

He's bigger, stronger, more bestial a Vessel than her. But by her gaze and her posture, she makes it very clear that he leads only by the same generosity that allowed him up into her strange little studio. Right now, she is an indulgence, given freely to a subject of fondness in a moment of need. But that could change in one quick breath, were she to flip open to reveal the blade at the center of her construction. Maybe later she'll give him a challenge, once he's gotten himself comfortable in her artsy abode. For now, she's content to take the following role, as easy a partner in this dance as in other intimate activities.

The woody seal of the window settling into its frame is decisive in the hush. Though guided, she takes every opportunity to reach for him as he adjusts her arm; wrist cocked, fingers splayed to drag a trail behind the path he takes her. Then with a titter of laughter she's twirled to face the window and the world beyond—which he offers to her under one condition.

Her ears pique, flick, swivel at the percussive clinking and jingling that accompanies the careless landing of his vest, but quickly they come to a tilt that better captures the burning brimstone of his voice, fanning hot over the back of her neck. Then comes the request: paint him a picture, a direction she answers with another laugh, this one of a more obscured amusement.

He has no idea what he's asking for, poking his roaming claws into her art like that. Just like he claims to want to know who hurt her, and what they owe her. Her skin tingles at the edges of his nails and anticipation shakes her spine when his tail comes to coax her legs open—as if she needed any convincing to let him in. Pointedly she relaxes her knee, lets her foot slip just a bit further out than it's been pulled.] You know, there are easier ways to get me to paint for you.

[Still, she plays coy, settling into his embrace while her own claws drag faint, exploratory trails over the backs of the arms wrapped around her.] What will you be watching, then? Far as I can tell, we've got the same view from here.

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[nestingdevil]

[Oh, part of him is all-too aware. That all of this is being done on her terms. Her invitation, the way she lets him lead her on, toe-to-heel back to the window where he's already left his signature. If she didn't want this, if she didn't want a piece of him, she would have already torn his throat wide open. Torn it open and chewed him out for even thinking, for a second, a man like him could try.]

[So, he doesn't take it lightly. He never, really, does. Simple as he likes things to be, there's still fine print to every engagement. Not the kind that would ever bind him (the thought, in itself, is laughable), but the kind where the terms are clear. The two-way street of desire, bolded out and underlined to make sure each party gets their wanted satisfaction.]

[Besides, he'd hate for her to have a bad memory of him. For her to get the wrong idea, as so many others already have.]

[Greed eases himself to the ground, folding his wings up as snug as possible against his back.] Don't doubt it. But it'd be a little boring if we took the easy way out, don't you think? [His position is, by all means, questionable. Whatever he has in mind, lost in the flood of their tether. He can't give the punchline away that easily. It wouldn't be fun that way. And that's what he's here for. A little fun, a little means of unwinding, after getting his ass raked and spat out by a fight between two men he had no business being a part of.]

[The Sin's hands wander away from her as he flips himself onto his back, settling his weight firmly on his elbows. And as he finds his spot, he taps one his knuckles twice against the inner part of one of her thighs. A nudge, a suggestion, that she should probably shift a bit.] A more interesting view, if you really gotta know. [And now, it should be clear. How he pries his hips off the ground, lifting his head slowly between her legs. He doesn't need to see past the hem of her get-up to know where to go. To seek out her slit as his horns catch silk and satin like cat's claws, kneading themselves in.]

[If she's wearing anything underneath, the forks of his tongue find it soon enough. They split out of his mouth, smoked with soaked whiskey, leaving a damp trace behind them.]