brave_kreyu | OOM All Skate Skellig Dream Magic Weirdness -Part Nine

Kreyu has gathered plenty of henna and even woad, a blue dye, for some experiments with designs on Skellig's skin.

"The blue would look lovely on you, I think," she remarks. "Your fairer skin would show it off quite well. Though I am far more experienced in applying henna."

She's gathered bits and pieces of designs to look at for inspiration. Celtic style knots, viking style abstract patterns and stylized beasts, the mandala and floral type designs he's admired on her, and more.

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"Too strong, I think." She nuzzles his neck. "It worked, the physical effects on the forest. But the story pulled us under far too deeply."

She huffs. "She had no right to be so possessive of you." She pauses. "Him. She had never even met him face to face."

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"Him," he reaffirms. "He...he was inexperienced. I do not think I was ever...he was ever in any danger...but he was a bit blinded, by her power."

Skellig is grateful for the physical contact of her face in his neck, and reaches up to stroke her hair. After a moment of relaxing, he speaks again.

"I know that if I ever wanted to leave, you would let me," he says softly. "Not without great protest and heartbreak," he adds quickly. "But you would not bind me if I did not wish to stay."

He leans back slightly, looks at her and lifts her chin. "Not that I will ever leave, because you are my soulmate, my stars upon the sky," he whispers softly. "And I want to stay with you, completely of my own desires."

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"I don't think she would have hurt HIM, but anyone she thought might try to take him away from her..." Kreyu shudders. "Some of the stories are bloody for a reason, I fear."

"And you are mine, the beat of my heart, the blood in my veins, the breath in my lungs. I would stay with you as long as you would have me."

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Skellig thinks to himself: And I have seen what you have done to those who have tried to take me away from you... But he does not verbalize it, as it is an unspoken understanding - and also an entirely different situation. That is hypothetical, myth, stories from generations past. This is reality...

"Then it is settled," he mutters gently, pressing his lips to her forehead. "We are to remain together for all time." And that is that.

He sighs gently and then shifts to allow his forehead to rest against hers - he is growing exhausted, and a faint headache is pulling at the back of his skull, overexertion and after-effects of the spell beginning to creep in.

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"Shall we go back to the Lair, love? I can carry you in my eagle shape, if you are weary."

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"My reserves are not...they are not that low," he says quietly, reaching into his own 'self' to sense how he is truly feeling. "But I am quite weary. My mind is...I am a bit overstimulated," he admits. "I would take you up on it, if you truly do not mind and I would not be too heavy."

Nevermind the fact that he is already 'light' as it is.

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It takes a few minutes to pack up what they brought with them into something that can be carried in her eagle shape, but it's not too much trouble.

The setting sun paints the golden feathers of her eagle shape with color as they soar back to the Lair. She's careful with him, so careful, as they fly. She's feeling guilty about what happened, you see.

Is the Lair starting to feel like 'home' to him by now? They arrive without incident, and she leads him to the hot spring to wash off the bits of forest clinging to them both.

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Once they have passed through the wards that protect the Lair, he visibly relaxes - she will notice he is acting more comfortable as they pause at the hot spring to clean their bodies.

"The lines are making better sense again," he tells her, as he wipes himself down with a clean rag and some herbal-scented soap. "With the last spell, the one in the field we attempted here, I did not become as disoriented as I did with this one."

How long were they even in the forest? Has it truly been two (three?) days? Or did time flow differently once they entered the glade and slipped within the story and the ritual? He cannot tell, and that bothers him, vaguely.

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"I am glad they are making better sense now," she says, voice soft and slightly guilty.

She flushes as she wipes the forest and sex from her thighs. "I would not have thought I COULD have that many orgasms in one long afternoon and not be sore afterward."

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Part of him is slightly smug at her comment, but the other is vaguely bewildered - it was only an afternoon.

"I am sore," he says. "But it is not from sex. Which you are right...I had no idea I was capable of that much in such a short timespan."

He stretches his wings out and then resettles them against his back, before dipping his cloth again into the spring to refresh the water and work on getting the rest of his skin washed up.

"It was quite enjoyable, though," he adds. "Even if it did not play out exactly as we had intended."

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She moves to touch him, concerned, when he says he is sore. She's not sure she dares to FIX that, after what happened earlier.

"You enjoyed it?" She seems relieved at that. "Not just physically, I mean." She flushes. "His situation, his emotions, at least before he met Her, I feared they might open old wounds."

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Skellig does not shy away from her touch - he actually leans slightly into her hand - and nods slowly.

"It would be a lie to say that there no emotions stirred up that did not rekindle some unpleasant...I would not call them memories, because there is nothing...attached." He glances at her face. "But I would not hide those parts of my feelings from you anyways. I would share them with you, work to heal them with your aid."

After all, they are partners. And that is what partners do.

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"I would be glad to help you with that." She gently kisses his forehead. Partners forever.

"I am...unnerved by some of the things I felt as well," she admits.

Kreyu is almost finished cleaning herself off.

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Skellig also takes another few minutes to get the rest of the 'outside' off of his skin, and then once he is finished and she is as well, they make their way back to the main room.

"I think we should maybe...hydrate?"

He glances at her. "And if you are willing, would you take some of this..." He motions at himself. "I am a bit sore from just...I think it is my muscles, while I am not a stranger to the motions and positions we enjoyed... he was, and so my body did not know how to respond?"

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"Hydration and perhaps a light meal would be wise," she agrees.

"Of course," she says. The pain is easy to get rid of, all things considered. "Just muscle soreness," she confirms after it is gone.

She fetches them some wine, bread, cheese, and fruit. The bed feels WONDERFUL to curl up with him in, and they can have their drinks and snacks there. Once they're settled, she flushes. "If it affected how your body responded as well as your emotions, your memory...it would seem that you experienced what it was like to have sex for the first time, in a way."

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"I think you are right," he reaches for a piece of cheese, everything is within easy reach on their shared plate she's put together, and sips at his wine. "He felt...I could sense how nervous he was, the longing and desires rippling through his system."

Skellig might be cuddling just a touch closer than he 'usually' does with her.

"And it definitely... felt as if I had nothing to base my, his actions on," he adds. "It was her guidance taking the lead."

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Kreyu is perfectly fine with close cuddling!

"I have wished that I could have been your first," she confesses. "That you would have never known a lover that did not accept, desire, ALL of you."

"Perhaps that is part of why the story pulled me in so deeply." She sips some of the wine. "I didn't want you to be afraid, wanted to give you pleasure, wanted to teach you as you taught me." She runs her fingers through his hair. "She wanted not to frighten you, him, too. Wanted his pleasure and her own with a ravenous intensity."

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"I mean technically..."

Skellig is quiet for a long moment as he contemplates a few thoughts that are running through his mind - and his distraction is not due to the fact that she has her fingers running through his hair in the way he loves so much - before he speaks again.

"Technically, while you were not my first...and I do not remember my first in any detail...but you were my first who loved me," he says softly. "Who accepted me, desired and wanted me. So in some ways, I would call you...my first who was...meaningful? Meant something?"

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"Oh," she buries her face in his neck, full of so many emotions. Her heart aches that none of his prior partners loved him, meant something. There is joy as well, that she has given him something wonderful, that she MEANS something in ways no one else ever has.

"They should have loved you, treated you like the treasure that you are," she says against his neck. "And yet I am selfishly glad that they did not, that they have no claim on you, no hold. I, I am not so sure where my own possessiveness, my greed for you, stops and HERS begins. SHE was so possessive of Him, would have killed that girl He kissed had the girl not been with another already and HE thoroughly caught by HER beauty."

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"The only one who can make any sort of true claim on my soul is you," he says softly. "My dragon, My Kreyu. My mate," he presses a quick kiss to the top of her hairline as she nuzzles against him. "I know you are possessive, but it is not anything that I would be...afraid of."

He contemplates for a moment.

"I do not feel trapped or roughly bound by our agreements and arrangements," he adds. "Certainly there is a linkage to those moments we have shared and made our union stronger, but it is what I have desired, what I love. Which is you."

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"That is a great relief to my heart," she tells him. "It frightened me, how possessive I, She, was."

She laughs, low. "Though I enjoyed our unions very much. When He discovered so many pleasures for the first time..." It was more erotic than she would have expected it to be!

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Unable to hide the flush that naturally rises to his skin, his color reddens gently as he sips at his wine.

"She...you..." he waves vaguely with his hand - clearly she KNOWS what he means - and smirks. "...quite the high level of arousal and fuss was stirred up. It was...invigorating." ~~And exhausting!~~ He leans over to catch her cheek with a kiss. "I think eventually my muscles remembered what it was that brings you the greatest pleasure...but he was lucky to have such a good teacher in her to show him the way until that happened."

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"And I was lucky to have such a good teacher in you, Skellig." She kisses his cheek. "I tried to teach him as you taught me, with utmost kindness and gentleness."

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"I would say you did very well in that regard."

He smiles broadly when she presses her lips against his cheek, laughing gently. "Any young man would be lucky to have you as their first, but I will admit it gives me a bit of smug pleasure knowing that you are mine, and I get to keep your talents all to myself."

She is HIS mate.

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She's visibly pleased when he says she did very well, feathers puffing up a little in pride.

"Your mate, no matter who else might look, might want, might beg for me to please them." She nuzzles his neck.