warnings: questionable bdsm etiquette ; kink, so much kink (steppy, degradation, praise) ; femdom ; spanking ; snowballing ; consensual non-consent ; cunnilingus ; pegging

general: i just want that twink magnai destroyed ; welcome back magic diq stel ; stormblood spoilers

idiom

• to intentionally not give someone or something any attention

The stone floor’s chill sinks deep into Magnai’s flesh, his scales so cold as to burn. Uncomfortable, but manageable.

The real issue is the sharp heel pinning the soft meat ‘twixt thumb and forefinger to the floor. He isn’t quite sure how he arrived at this vantage point, but most like it’s the doing of the miqo’te woman wearing said heel. He’d made some demand which she refused. Easy enough to recall… except for the part where he’s now staring at his palace’s ceiling.

The Warrior of Light, a nondescript little creature save her shock of voluminous amaranthine hair, towers over him, mismatched eyes narrowed. Her red dress trails over his armor, the myrrh and floral scent of her throwing his nerves into a maddening buzz.

His men keep to their posts, silent, staring at the walls. “Chain her up and throw her in a cell for the desecration of Azim! She has no authority over your most radiant brother, not even after victory in the Naadam! We sit the Dawn Throne, not she!”

Magnai’s commands fall on deaf ears; the sight of him debased, on blind eyes.

“Leave us,” says the woman, soft voice edged with steel. “I shall see to the bleating of this poor, wayward sheep.”

They obey, quicker than they’ve ever moved for him.

“You are not in charge here.”

“It would seem that I am, Magnai Oronir.”

Stelmaria removes her foot from his hand, leaving a throbbing ache, then places it on his crotch instead, over the thick leather, and presses hard with her toes. The throne room goes spinning, vision going dark momentarily as every mote of his prideful xaela awareness settles on his swollen, aching cock—the well-made boot lazily drifting up and down with each throb of his veins.

“We had heard rumors of your proclivities, woman, but to flaunt the evidence so shamelessly—” He muffles a yelp as the boot bears down, cock hardening further and beginning to seep fluid.

“Shameless? Says the grown man who wants me to degrade him before his men? You’d lick my boots if I asked wouldn’t you?”

He swallows hard, trying to keep the tremble of desire from his imperious tone, “No.”

“Lick.”

The offending article approaches, but she wobbles, a bit off-balance. On instinct, he steadies her at the haunch, before realizing his mistake and dropping his hands.

“Now you’ve done it, little man.” A quick turn and Stelmaria's off to the throne—his throne—which she occupies with a lazy, sprawl after delicately stepping out of her smallclothes. The dress and boots remain on. “If I am forced to retrieve you from the floor there will be consequences.”

A shiver runs through him at the idea of ‘consequences’. Deliberating for a moment, he decides to obey, joining her at the throne.

“Kneel.”

He does so, nerves taut in anticipation.

“Lick,” she repeats.

“No.” His face burns as his heartbeat quickens. Any faster and it feels as though it may burst apart at the seam.

“Why not?”

“The sun does not engage in such shameful behavior as—”

She loops her long, slim legs around his shoulders and drags him down, under the skirt, against the wet heat of her core. He wastes no time, using nose and lips to pull her swollen clit into his mouth and sucking hard. Her entire body jerks, hips rolling as she moans. The warrior's pale, calloused hands wrap around his horns and yank roughly, correcting his angle and position, and making him grunt in a wonderful mix of pleasure and pain.

Reminding him that every moment of this is subject to her whims.

She cries out under his swirling tongue, breathing heavily and pressing herself hard onto his face. He remains steady, but his arms feel empty; he wants to grasp handfuls of soft flesh, delight in this creature trembling under his power, but he does not.

He cannot do anything without a command.

“Touch yourself until you cum.” Her voice is infuriatingly steady for the amount of effort he’s putting into this.

He would make a token protest but her grip is unrelenting; he's unable to take his mouth off her. The absurdity of it, the taboo nature of stroking his own cock while still in his leathers, lips and tongue greedily slurping at the warrior of light's hot cunt makes it all the more arousing.

If he disobeyed now, stopped everything, what would she do? She might step on him again, kick him between the ribs like a filthy dog, or maybe...

A strangled cry and he cums all over the foot of his throne, hips thrusting into the stately furs he uses to soften the otherwise hard seat, palm dripping and slick.

“Clean it.” Her strange eyes gleam in amusement.

His face burns like Azim himself in midsummer, “Woman—”

Stelmaria slaps him full across the face; his horns ringing from the blow, cheek stinging, blue mouth turning purple as the taste of iron spreads across his bifurcated tongue. “Clean. It.”

“No.”

A moment passes. They both smile.

“Then strip.”

He does so, but slowly and petulantly, staring at her flushed skin and heaving breasts.

The moment he finishes she stands to shed her own clothes, “Sit.”

His throne is still warm and the furs are sticky with cum. She wanders the room fully naked, sniffing random bottles of liquid until she finds whatever she's searching for and returns.

Her skin is pale as raen scales and beautiful when flushed, body perfectly rounded in all the right places—he's already recovering his stamina, length stirring back to life.

With one hand she hooks a leg behind his knee and presses it tight to his chest. The other hand scrapes a bit of pearlescent cum off his tanned skin then mixes it with the fragrant liquid from the bottle. Pausing a moment, she takes in his parted lips and panting breaths, the tension in his limbs and the flush on his face, the hardness bobbing against his stomach and the need in his gaze.

“Relax.” She runs her hand gently down his chest, kissing his throat, squeezing his cock, rubbing circles into his sensitive sack, down farther to where only his brothers touched him before; stroking across the tight rear opening with fingers and thumb.

He trembles like a frightened lamb, gasping against his vision melting into a haze. Should he desire an end to this, he need only grasp her tattooed shoulder firmly. She would understand his unspoken request with her strange mind magicks and leave him be; pretend this never happened.

It's the last thing he wants.

The hand supporting his thigh seizes a horn and pulls. In the same moment her fingers enter, spreading him open and setting every nerve aflame. He's never been with a woman before, only unemotional, mechanical trysts with willing brothers, and her smaller, more experienced fingers are capable of reducing him to a weak-jointed, sweaty mess in a matter of moments.

His need for release is overpowering; mind and body empty except for the heated coal smoldering low in his belly. He wants to cum hard and he doesn't particularly care how.

“Magnai.” Her fingers never stop moving, applying pressure to one particular spot over and over again, sending relentless waves of pleasure washing over him, strong enough he feels he might expire at any moment.

He stares at her flushed face, beautiful and pale, eyes star-bright yet distant.

“I'm going to fuck you now. Be a good boy,” she explains as a flash of her unholy magick sparks between them.

There's no time to gather himself before she's sliding in, stretching him to the absolute limit even after all the warm up with fingers and oil. Her fangs sink deep in his inner thigh as she bottoms out, her full length dragging across the spot inside him she'd teased to the brink only moments ago.

Hot cum spatters across them both as light explodes behind his eyes, whole body tightening around the aetheric cock inside. She moans and lowers her head to lick the mess from his chest, then kisses him, depositing it in his mouth.

Coughing and gagging, his protests are half-hearted at best—betrayed by his already re-hardening length bouncing between them—and unable to hide his amusement at seeing his blood on her lips.

The warrior fucks him mercilessly, alternating between pulling out to drive back in to the hilt and staying fully sheathed, grinding her hips at an angle that makes him whimper in delight, toned limbs shuddering uncontrollably.

He's reaching his threshold, but so is she; skin burning and sharp breaths coming fast as her gaze bores into him along with her magicked length. She slaps his ass with her free hand, setting his flesh stinging like a swarm of hornets.

That's all it takes.

Another sharp yank on his horn as she pulls out fast enough to bring tears to his eyes, magnifying his building orgasm into a full out of body experience. He floats out of himself, a mote of total delirium, a feeling he's never experienced outside of battle. She daubs his belly with dribbled liquid light, mixing with the pearl white of his own spend.

So lovely, watching her take her pleasure from him, shivering and biting back a moan. He pulls a taut nipple into his mouth just for the sake of it; damn the punishment.

The small gasp she gives chases the languid weight from his limbs and sets his heart galloping again.

“Magnai.” She tilts his face up to kiss him once more, softer and sweeter this time. “You did so good for me. So good.” More kisses. The drag of her tongue down the sweat coating his neck. “So good.”

Magnai Oronir, son of Azim, has never been so pleased to be proved wrong in his entire life. He must reconsider what he desires from his future Nhaama, but first—he requires more experimentation with the warrior of light.

warnings: implied drug addiction ; implied sex work ; two people sacrificing themselves and not giving a shit about the long term consequences

general: me: ‘i feel like i use too many dialog tags.’ also me: ‘challenge accepted.’

verb

• to propel a boat by means of oars
• to transport in an oar-propelled boat
• to form into rows
• to engage in a quarrel

noun

• an act or instance of rowing
• a number of objects arranged in a usually straight line or the line along which such objects are arranged
• a street or area dominated by a specific kind of enterprise or occupancy
• a noisy disturbance or quarrel

“I asked for your help on this because I believed we had an understanding, but perhaps I was mistaken?”

The oars dip into the calm waters of the moat, biting clean through and leaving no ripples to disturb the moon-mirrored surface.

“You are not, though if you expected me to remain silent on the subject then perhaps you were mistaken?”

A soft splash as the oars breach the surface to greet the starry sky. Water trickles off the edge and back into the moat, tears of Menphina, shining bright.

“Thancred—”

“Stelmaria, if we lacked an understanding I most certainly would not be rowing a leaky boat to Doma Castle in the dead of night with only an expensive rug and a lingerie-clad Warrior of Light for company.”

”...Lingerie may be a tad too generous a descriptor, but then you always have been a gentleman, sweet bard.”

“A complement I shall cherish forever, I assure you.”

“Sarcasm does not become you, Thancred.”

“I beg to differ. Though the glassy-eyed stare of an addict does no favors for you, my friend, nor the trembling in your limbs and the sweat on your brow.”

“So kind of you to elaborate on my flaws. Pray, what else offends you regarding my person? Is there lip stain on my fangs? Perhaps you might offer your reassurance that one day I shall regret my tattoos?”

A long silence hangs between them, strangely heavy for containing nothing at all.

“Stelmaria, I do not wish to tell you what to do with—”

“—and yet here we are—”

“—your person. We do have an understanding. I wish only to remind you…”

Another tense silence broken only by the twittering of night birds and the muffled splash of pearlescent droplets back to their rest.

“Remind me of?”

“Remind you—gently—you are not immortal. That you are never alone in bearing the grief of fallen comrades and friends. That should you fail to return upon the morrow, many will weep for the loss of Eorzea’s greatest champion.”

“Eorzea’s greatest whore, you mean. Would you be among them, I wonder?”

The boat rocks precariously at the sudden shift of his weight. Greedy, he pulls her close, reveling in her heat, the full curves of her breasts pressed hard to his chest, the scent of the drug haze clinging to her skin and the addictive flavor of her sinful mouth. “Yes,” he replies, hoarse, finding it difficult—so difficult—to pull away.

The seconds tick by, punctuated by the rustle of silk and a deep grunt, before she retreats from him to reclaim her seat, calm and regal as a queen.

“Are you jealous?”

He ignores her question. Ilm by ilm, the boat resumes its steady glide across the water.

“If only it had not come to this,” he mutters.

“Yet it has. You and I know better than most how impossible it is to change the past, so we soldier on. Though we are just a whore and a rogue at the moment, we soldier on, doing what we must to save those we can.”

“True. The methods don’t matter, my lady.”

“Indeed, my rogue. We sink low to raise others up. We see what needs doing and we refuse to turn away from things which others deny. Dignity matters little when parting with it yields such results.”

Thunk.

“We’re here.”

“Lay out the rug. Try to keep it clean.”

He obeys, then rolls the Warrior of Light up in the carpet and hefts the lot over a broad shoulder. With one hand, he slips on the centurion’s helmet before picking his way towards the castle, swift and silent.

If all goes well, Yotsuyu goe Brutus and Zenos yae Galvus shall receive an unexpected visitor shortly.

warnings: blood ; description of a deep abdominal wound ; i be spoiling everything up in here

general: feels ; hurt/comfort kinda; this just kinda took on a life of its own ; fuck if i know

adjective

• (especially of a liquid) only slightly warm; lukewarm.
• showing little enthusiasm

Glowing logs crackle and snap, then rustle as the soft piles of ash collapse under their own weight. Flames flicker and dance, casting grotesque and outsized shadows on the walls. The heat spreading from the grate is strong and steady, yet it barely takes the edge off the omnipresent chill.

Stelmaria slouches deeper into the thick quilt, pulling her stockinged feet up off the freezing floor. This unrelenting cold weather makes her bones ache and her nose run  freely no matter how many warming tonics she forces down her throat.

Camp Dragonhead is silent as a tomb this late, or this early, depending on your point of view. These bells before the first delicate peach and gold stripes of dawn reach for the eastern sky is the best time to sift through her muddled thoughts.

“Would you like company my friend? I’ve brought you a little something.”

Heavily distracted, an awkward amount of time passes before Stelmaria realizes Haurchefant is speaking to her, much less to register what he's asking. His smile never falters, even as the silence stretches on.

“Oh,” she murmurs, scooting to make him a space beside her. “That’s very kind of you.”

He shakes his head, silver-blue hair sparkling in the firelight, “Please, think nothing of it.”

There is a gently steaming mug in each of his broad, calloused hands. They, much like everything else about the elezen, are sturdy and dependable at any time of day or night.

And Stelmaria had cause to know.

She takes one from him, chapped skin greedy for the accumulated warmth of both mug and palm.

Except it isn't as hot as she assumed it would be.

“Did I burn the milk?” His voice is concerned.

Her confusion must have been obvious. “I just assumed it would be boiling hot,” she explains, letting the wafting chocolate and cinnamon smell bolster her heart.

A single brow lifts before he chuckles, warm and sultry enough to shame the blazing fire. “Ah no... I always thought it impolite to serve a drink so hot your guest cannot enjoy it at its most delicious. As it cools the chocolate settles to the bottom. If you daub cream in top it melts right away.”

“I see,” she says, without truly seeing.

He grins, cheeks coloring as he replaces the quilt slipping down her narrow shoulder. “In my admittedly inexpert opinion, hot chocolate  should be served at a temperature just above tepid. That's when everything is in balance, the taste, the scent, even the look of it. As a host that is the moment where I can maximize my guest's enjoyment.”

“And being a true paragon of knighthood—living to serve and all that—hospitality is all about giving your best for another,” she teases.

That first sip is smooth and rich, everything a sweet drink meant to warm from the inside out should be. Heaven contained within a humble earthenware mug.

“Indeed. Though the way may be difficult and the task daunting, to be a knight is to throw yourself against the odds and succeed,” he says heartily, clinking the lip of his mug against her own.

The more of Haurchefant she sees the more she grows to like him. His flowery offers of shelter, sympathy, and friendship unnerved her at first, but with every word and deed he'd proved himself the genuine article—a true man of virtue.

Her second sip is even better than the first somehow, spreading warmth and comfort from her heart to every ilm of her tense limbs.

“You would go so far for just a friend?”

“No such thing as ‘just a friend’ my dearest Warrior. Every soul is special to someone and should be treated as such.”

Her throat tightens, “And if the someones have all gone? What then?”

He puts his mug on the side table and faces her, clear blue eyes quite serious, “They haven't gone. The missing Scions will be found in time. Alphinaud and Tataru love you like family. And...”

Hesitating, he glances away.

“And?”

“And I would care for you as well. If it's not...”

“It's not,” she says, and resettles the quilt to cover him as well. Two against the world, instead of just one.

“Stella? What’s this?” asks the innocent, bird-like voice, so very different from the imperious tone that haunts her dreams.

Dreams of opium scented smoke and sharp pinpricks of pain. Of moon-pale breasts clasped to moon-pale breasts. Crimson lips and fragrant petals.

Gunpowder and blood and castles falling into the sea.

Tsuyu’s wide, guileless eyes gaze at Stelmaria over the steaming mug, politely waiting for an answer.

Tsuyu and not Yotsuyu.

“It's called hot chocolate. Drink it before it gets cold.”

“Hot?” Tsuyu repeats, concerned.

“Well, it’s more warm than hot really,” Stel admits. “Go on. You won’t burn your mouth, I promise.”

“All right!” the Doman woman chirps, before quaffing the lot in one go like a greedy child. “Thank you!”

Stel does her best to smother a giggle. “What did you think?”

The carmine lips purse under a thin film of hot chocolate. “More, please?”

“Lyna, I beg you. Leave me to my rest.” G’raha Tia does his utmost to sound terse.

Really, he just wants a few bells of peace to catch up on his reports. He’s been shamefully behind since Stelmaria appeared in the First and his extended convalescence upon returning from The Tempest hasn’t helped matters in the slightest.

The knock comes again, more insistent this time, but the accompanying voice isn’t Lyna. “There’s no tricking me with that half hearted nonsense, and if it wouldn’t fool me you can be certain Lyna won’t believe it either.”

His crimson ears flatten, eyes darting everywhere to locate an escape only to come up empty. Every ilm of his flesh aches and the wound where Chessamile pried the flattened round from his shoulder itches like demon’s fury. He’s refused to accept help to bathe himself, neither has he finished a meal nor slept more than a bell at a time.

In short, he’s a mess and the Warrior is about to find out how low he can sink.

She must have grown tired of waiting for his reply because she breezes into his bedroom while he’s still debating jumping out the window. “Drink this,” she commands and places a steaming mug on his bedside table, heedlessly upsetting his careful piles of notes, books, and broken quills to do so.

He identifies it by scent alone. “Hot chocolate?”

“Yes,” she replies, without elaborating. “Drink that while I run a bath for you.”

The Lord of the Crystarium nearly spits the sweet mouthful across the room. “Bath?!”

“Lyna tells me you seem uncomfortable at the idea of her assistance, but she’s worried you’ll make yourself ill.”

He tries a confident chuckle before having a nonchalant sip of the chocolate, “Lyna is—“

“A lovely sweet woman who’s put up with her beloved grandfather’s ridiculous foolishness for decades? Yes I’ve heard all about it. Leaving aside Lyna’s observations, Chessamile tells me you smell like an unwashed amaro and you’re neither eating nor sleeping.”

Her entire diatribe is delivered in bursts as she stalks between his bedside—where she oversees his hot chocolate consumption—and his adjoining bathroom, where presumably a tub full of hot water awaits.

There’s no use in further obstruction. He swallows the last of the drink like an obedient kit and accepts her help in rising from his bed.

She smells of myrrh and orange blossoms, staying close to his side in case he trips, patiently attending his plodding steps. The chocolate, much to his surprise, radiates warm contentment from his belly.

“I’m glad you came. That you’re here,” he murmurs.

He doesn’t mean the drink or the bath.

Her face relaxes, the slow smile spreading over her features the same one he remembers from their adventures in the tower, all those years ago, when things were simple and a future together wasn’t an impossible dream.

“Me too,” she replies.

They had gone to the end of the universe together, just the two of them, all the way out past the razor edge of existence where the fabric of time and space begins to unravel. A place where anything that might be imagined can and does spring into being.

An eternal new beginning, the promise of life and hope stretching across that endless expanse the way that dawn brings a new day, all color in motion and joyous to behold.

She fought Zenos to the death there. She watched him breathe his last, whispering words to speed him on his return to the aetherial sea.

She bled there. Shrapnel from her shattered rapier embedded like diamonds in her skin. The hole Zenos put in her belly oozing dark, dark blood. The smell... all wrong... He placed a spell there, for healing, but it wouldn't stick. He tried staunching the wound the old fashioned way, using the pressure of his hands.

But the hole... it was so big... he couldn't... it wouldn't... something soft... the blood...

She was dying and he could not save her.

Yet, with a miraculous series of beeps they reappeared aboard the Ragnarok, spurring a frantic rush of movement and sound. Everyone trying to heal her all at once. Alphinaud, Alisaie, Yshtola, Urianger, at one point Thancred found a potion that he tipped down her throat, and Estinien snapped commands to the Lopporits to 'get this woman to a healer and do it now.'

Sharlayan.

The best doctors the nation could claim decided some of her organs were obliterated but no one will give him details. He just can't stop thinking about how far into the hole his hands could slip.

It turns his stomach.

A hot bath in the annex. The water red as wine, red like Dalamud, circling the drain to slip away and disappear.

A comfortable bed where he won't sleep.

He can't sleep. Not until she wakes.

Exhausted but tense, he pads to the kitchen and puts milk in a pan to warm. Then finds the chocolate and cinnamon and sugar and cream.

He decides to make it exactly how she does, down to which hand she uses to stir the finished mixture—always seven times clockwise—to set the magic charm. He adds everything she likes, as though he's planning to bring it to her, extra cream, extra shavings, extra cinnamon, and extra sweet.

Extra sweet, like her.

His throat tightens, burning as if he's swallowed the sun. He breathes slow. Concentrate. Breathe again.

It's done.

He takes it to her, thinking maybe she'll wake.

The bed seems huge, or perhaps she seems smaller than usual. The gleaming violet curtain of her hair fans over the pillow like a goddess' halo. Her narrow chest rises and falls but she's so ghostly pale, the only spots of color aside from her hair are the ugly bruises from the rapier shrapnel.

Her chocolate goes on the nightstand and he sits beside her, the burst of anxious energy that carried him this far finally spent.

He takes her freezing hand and rubs it between his own, trying to ignore the insistent belief that they've come to the end of things before they had a chance to begin.

“Is that chocolate?”

His laughter turns to tears as he runs his lips greedily over the back of her hand, and “Yes. Yes it is. It should be the perfect temperature for you to drink.”

warnings: dubcon, animal cruelty, sadism, obsessive behavior, violence

general: touch starved, frottage, fingers in mouths, zenos is combatsexual and i love that for him

noun

• a lightning stroke, a shaft or missile designed to be shot from a crossbow or catapult
• a wood or metal bar or rod used to fasten a door, the part of a lock that is shot or withdrawn by the key
• a metal rod or pin for fastening objects together
• a roll of cloth or wallpaper of specified length

verb

• to move suddenly or nervously, to move or proceed rapidly
• to break away from control or a set course, to dart off or away
• to secure with a bolt
• to eat hastily or without chewing

Even as a boy, Zenos yae Galvus lived for the thrill of the hunt.

To catch a vermin one must first understand its way of thinking, its desires and its fears. This understanding allows for anticipation, and anticipation for preparation. Only then can the trap be sprung.

In the frozen wastes of his native Garlemald he'd spent an infinity of bells tracking the small, nervous snow hares as they fled hither and yon, his broad shoulders hunched against the endless howling wind, following the meandering, panicked paths back to secret boltholes where he dispatched them.

He would watch in rapt silence, breathing fast, pink tongue moistening dried lips as red wetness crawled over soft, white fur, the blood in his veins thrumming to a fever pitch. He observed every twitch, memorizing the signs of impending death until the final stillness reigned. The young man meditated upon the heart's fickle flutters, its frantic headlong rush through the last of its allotted beats, as though the creature was excited to die.

Between those fleeting seconds he could understand somewhat the misguided barbarian obsession with the divine. Magnificent were the violent delights which blossomed from this sort of power. His breeches would tighten, imagining what thrills might be savored if one could achieve power like unto a god.

It was the first taste of what would eventually consume his life's flame.

Many years had come and gone since Zenos found any sort of challenge in the minds and spirits of his prey. It seemed he'd reached a zenith where no other could reach or touch him. The clear path from which he had not strayed now became lost in a shroud of heavy fog, a veil separating his current state from the godhood he deserved.

An emotion sprouted within him, one he had no name for; a great gaping emptiness which chilled his blood the way the Garlean winters never had, a greedy worm festering within the ripened apple of his heart. He floundered there, lost and searching, devoid of the contentment he found only in the ringing clash of blades.

In the end she was the one to name this feeling, and in so doing she gained absolute power over him. In so doing she was named friend.

At first she cowered, crawling away on hands and knees. He put a foot on her back and pinned her to the blood-spattered soil but quickly lost interest when she retreated into herself, growing still and silent like the rabbits of his youth.

When he saw her again in Yanxia she had changed so much he did not recognize her. She looked sickly, pale and sweating, her eyes bright and pupils dilated but when her sword met his...

Fate.

It was but a matter of a few scant seconds by all accounts, however for Zenos each moment stretched onward into shining infinity. She fought with the strength of ten men and the shock of each blow ringing in his bones made his blood sing and his soul take flight.

He laughed and so did she, the wild cacophony of their joy mingling into one transcendent experience he would do anything to experience again. They danced in beauty, together, blood slinging heavy and wet from the moon bright edges of their swords with every mad swing. Her breast heaved in time with his own, the synchronized beating of their hearts bringing them closer to divinity.

To revelation.

He caught her sword hand and swung her around hard, closing his mouth over the leaping rabbit pulse at her throat to bite down and claim it as his own. The taste of her blood muddled his senses, a high better than any wine or drug he'd ever tried. She screamed in pain and stomped savagely on the arch of his foot before driving the curve of her rump against him.

The stars overhead exploded, their light reflected in her skin and hair, glinting off the fangs in her open mouth. Her wamth presses close, a being of fury whose skin smells of opium smoke. His achingly hard cock grinds into her, pulsing bliss, releasing spend, as wild as an animal in rut.

She licked her parted lips and whispered, voice strained, “Are you lonely, Zenos? Does it frighten you to know you are unloved and unwanted?”

The fog on his brain clears, the tightening pressure in his groin vanished like morning mist.

Fear. That was its name.

“Yes,” he grunted, struggling to master himself but unable to release her.

She waits, still and quiet, once more the rabbit of his childhood hunts. He buries his nose in her violet hair, redolent with the scents of starlight, spices, and sex. Her small figure is soft, just as her sword's edge is deadly sharp. A gauntleted thumb slips between the sinful curves of her generous lips, hooking the lower line of white teeth.

He jerks. She follows, moaning.

He shoves her away roughly.

Fear.

She tumbles to the packed earth, streaked with dirt and bleeding from the mouth. Her eyes pin him, strange in color and luminosity—one onyx, the other amethyst, both giving a faint glow of reflected moonlight.

A realization strikes him as he gazes at her, the gravity of it growing larger with every passing moment; collecting certainty as a planet gathers accretions: this is his destiny.

Her.

Her face is the last he shall ever see. His demise is hers to witness. The fading thrum of his heart, the dwindling number of its alloted beats is hers to savor and hers alone.

Zenos sees his own death. He now knows its shape, the curve of her breasts, the taste of her skin, the weight of her sword. The mania that spawns from a single perfect moment gone too soon.

Only now does Zenos truly understand the frantic impatience of the rabbit's final heartbeats. How one can long for the presence of another called “friend.”

post type:

#wordoftheday #prompt #drabble #ffxivwrite2022 #shitpost

series:

#ffxiv

• #wolshipewfic
• #exlibris
• #ffxivwrite2022

#dnd

• #threadsbetween

genre:

#horror #nsfw #kindansfw #fluff #au

universe:

#ffxiv

• #worldunsundered
• #prearr
• #arr
• #heavensward
• #stormblood
• #shadowbringers
• #endwalker
• #postmsq

#dnd

• #eberron

ship:

#felstel #hythhades #wolcred #wolexarch #wolgraha #wolmagnai #wolship #wolzenos

character:

#ffxiv

• #alisaie
• #alphinaud
• #ancients
• #estinien
• #exarch
• #fel
• #fray
• #graha
• #haurchefant
• #magnai
• #poppy
• #rosie
• #stelmaria
• #thancred
• #wol
• #yotsuyu
• #yshtola
• #zenos

#dnd

• #polly