@Gentleman_Death She gasps, she moans, her grip on him gets stronger, her back arches up until she's pushing them both upright. The sounds of her pleasure fall suddenly silent, and she freezes head to toe, save for the parts of her that were rhythmically coaxing him to join her.
@Gentleman_Death One of her feet slips off to their side, pressing against the ground to give her extra leverage as she rocks up into him and takes him into that most intimate embrace. The taste of his blood wakes something within her. ->
@Gentleman_Death Despite being beneath him, she is able to push back, to embrace and hold him with strength and passion, to join him in the danse macabre.
@Gentleman_Death His thrusts into her broke her whines into moans, themselves harmonic as if singing an unhinged melody of pleasure.
"La petite mort~!" she said, her pronunciation perfect. "Let me be your grave and your shroud." ->
@Gentleman_Death Fingers curled around wefts of his hair as if trying to spin delicate gold thread.
"Lestat~!" she whined, having enough strength in her hips to lift him as she pushed against his own.
@Gentleman_Death And here in his savage graveyard garden, she offered him a gilded and jeweled sarcophagus, fit for no less than a prince of the night.
She held onto him as he found his rhythm, soft cries of pleasure stirring into ecstatic song. ->
Do I put so much of myself into caring for the dead because the loneliness of my own existence is too painful?
Is it really Fate, or just self-fulfilling prophecies?
She nods, a bit hastily. "Aye, I'm fine, I think." She gently taps the ground for good measure. "Thought I was falling."
"I see and hear things," she explained hesitantly, expecting him to frown upon it. "Visions and voices. I'm mad, they say."
โThatโs very poetic.โ
He follows her gaze downward, expecting to see something unpleasant after the way she gasped.
โYes, youโre on the ground. Are you quite alright?โ
Lots of people don't like that.
But the words just want someone to hear them. I'm the same way.
I wonder if these shadows are like that. There's something, smothered by nothing. Sound, strangled by silence.
[She gasps and looks down.]
Solid ground. I'm on solid ground.
Likewise.
I quite like that. It's authentic. Most people's words are carefully curated to serve a purpose, rather than just speaking on things as they are.
Many things about me are long dead.
But words are different. I see and hear and feel things, and then words don't fit, unless they're shaped like this. Or they just come shaped like that.
Yes, I ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ, butโ
Cryptic probably isnโt the right word. You have quite anโฆarchaic manner of speech. Lyrical, almost. As though your mother tongue was some long dead language.
Shadows shrouding.
Sharp and shrieking silence.
She wants more. She wants everything. She wants nothing.
You still have something left. Take it between your teeth.
Now, I'm not exactly what you would call tender-hearted, butโ the ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ข๐ฏ๐ต screams of anguish in the Shadow-Cursed Lands do start to wear on you ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต after a while.