Library of the Four Winds Challenge 06#10 -- Kiss

[killingsoftly]

It's such a simple thing, a touch of lips to lips. A promise, a breath. A moment where things could change, will change, even if they just falter and collapse.

Lips meet, slide against each other. Heat and friction.

He doesn't mean for it to be more. Just a taste, a frisson of energy along his spine.

But then she moans and he can't help it when his lips part hers, when his tongue coaxes hers to play.

A gasp, drawn out, and then a more visceral sound. Kisses move over skin bared by fingers practiced in the task.

Lips freed from the constraints of others on them, open to cry out, to gasp.

He meets them again, and she shivers, cries out, and then falls silent.

He kisses her again, trying to coax a response. That's what happens isn't it? A kiss to wake the sleeping princess? Even he has heard the stories.

But she doesn't wake up.

Comments

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

Nothing much. A few gigs here and there.

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

Good ones, I hope?

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

They were, yes. Very profitable.

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

Good.

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

I rather thought so.

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

Did you wind up taking away more than just money and adulation?

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

*amused*

That's rather one of the underlying points of such things, Lady.

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

Now there's the smile made of sunlight.

Just wondering. You seem... off, at the moment.

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

Old memories, Lady. Nothing more.

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

All right.

Do you feel inclined to celebrate the day?

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

*arch of his eyebrow*

Why, Lady, are you propositioning me?

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

Consider it a...

*stretches out on the convenient couch*

... lounging invitation.

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

*moves to the edge of the couch and smiles down to her, a little oddly*

And here I thought you'd forgotten about me.

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

*sits up, frowning a bit*

Never.

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

*slight shrug, watching her*

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

*holds out her hand after a moment, silent*

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

*smiles, just a little, and takes her hand*

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

*brings it to her lips, brushes a kiss over the back of his hand, her eyes never leaving his*

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

*watches her, intently, with a hint of curiosity in his eyes, but not otherwise moving*

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

*turns her head to brush her cheek over his hand*

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

*traces fingertips along her jaw, tilting her head back up to look at him*

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

*closes her eyes for a moment, enjoying his touch, opens them again*

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

Lady...? *questioning look*

[lady-arcane.livejournal.com]

Mm? *soft/shy smile*

[killingsoftly.livejournal.com]

*softly* Why are you here?