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Vale of the White Horse
Topic Started: 5 Jan 2010, 13:03 (19,298 Views)
Sonja
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'Don't say that,' Morcant said vehemently. 'Once you start running from the things that scare you, you'll never stop.' Oh, but she was still so young. He wasn't much older, but he'd seen so much more in his life. He'd had his share of fear, the gods knew. 'You can best your fears,' he whispered in her ear, before pressing a kiss in her neck.
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Marieke
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There, he’d done it. The thing she dreaded, though it stirred her more than his hands on her waist. It was like a premonition of things to come; had he sealed their fate by kissing her just so? Essylt felt the sudden surge of a river and with it came a terrible thought, like lighting that strikes into a lonely tree. He must see the response on her face, how she held her breath, then unevenly inhaled. ‘You know that river?’ she breathed, clenching her eyes shut as tightly as she could, ‘the one I saw you drown in? What if that’s not a real river…’ That seemed unlikely; there was no stream like that close to the hill. She shuddered again, her hand clenching into the loose fabric of his shirt. ‘What if that’s me?’
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Sonja
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A frown appeared on his forehead as he looked into her face. 'Don't - that can't be,' he said. Couldn't it? Didn't dreams often contain symbolism instead of real situations? 'Why should it?' Morcant put his hand over hers in an attempt to calm her down.
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Marieke
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'I don't know,' she replied weakly. 'It was just a thought...'
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Sonja
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'It's far too late to worry about these things,' he said, enveloping her with his arms once more. She hardly weighed anything, as if her body was nothing more than a gust of wind caught in human skin.
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Marieke
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And yet her bones rang out warning bells to he mind. Perhaps she was being paranoid. There was no beast here in the room, and she was definitely not an owl. Morcant wasn’t dead; he was brimming with life against her. ‘Or perhaps I saw it so it wouldn’t happen,’ she murmured. ‘If I hadn’t dreamt it, maybe mother would still live. But he said that it was Carwyn who was not supposed to survive…That it was through me that he lived. And now he’s the heir of Two Lakes, instead of the child Udd Wyll wanted to have with me.’ She didn’t know how he’d respond to that. She didn’t even know how she felt about it.
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Sonja
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'He... wants to have a child with you,' Morcant repeated. Oh, just great. He could compete with a Roman, but not with one of the Fair Folk. They weren't called Fair for nothing. A bitter taste filled his mouth.
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Marieke
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She opened her eyes to him. ‘I don’t want anything like that though.’
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Sonja
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He only gave a nod, not trusting his voice enough. What if this Udd Wyll set his mind to conceiving a child in Essylt, whether she wanted to or not? You couldn't trust them, no matter how benign they may seem. And he could not protect her from a man who could get rid of him in a heartbeat should he want it. Morcant tightened his grip around her, as if he could prevent Udd Wyll from getting to her again that way.
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Marieke
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‘I don’t think he means me harm,’ she tried, but the force of his grasp didn’t lessen at all. ‘You think everyone is so capable of seducing me except you,’ she went on a little prickly. His tight arm started to hurt.
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Sonja
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'I'd call any man who didn't want to seduce you out of his mind,' he answered gruffly. How was he supposed to think that he was good at seducing her when she hardly reacted to his kiss and his touch? It might be true that she'd said she would rather sleep with him than with Marcus Lentulus, but it did not set him at ease at all.
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Marieke
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That was hardly her fault. Essylt said nothing, wondering what her father would say if he could for a moment borrow her uncanny powers and see her in the arms of this man, of humble birth, a rebel, a warrior with no markings. Even if it was true what she had said a while ago, that she was no longer a chieftain’s daughter, she still was her father’s child, and he remained a chieftain.
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Sonja
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He was silent for a long while, lost in his thoughts. His body still burned, begging him for at least some relief. It wasn't long before he took her hand to push his lips against the pale skin. She kept tossing him between losing his temper and wanting to present her the world on an ornate platter. If this went on for much longer, he thought he'd go insane.
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Marieke
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She breathed out slowly. It wasn’t as intimate as his lips in her neck, but it still made the soft hairs on her arms rise. Not from cold, because she wasn’t, despite that they lay on the floor without a blanket covering their bodies from above. The pile did stop the draught creeping up from below. She wanted to push all thoughts from her head. She wanted to be just here, right now, and not think about what she might do, or to whom.
With another sigh she turned around. Not shuffling away, but so that she could stare into the fire, which was getting smaller and smaller. The hut was almost completely dark. Her back pressed lightly to his chest now. One arm was still on her waist.
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Sonja
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He kissed her shoulder, and then her neck again. Then he lay his head down, nearly burying his face into her curls as if it would somehow help him. But her body was so close and she smelled so alluring he did not think he'd be able to sleep that night. He'd fallen asleep with her in his arms before, but this was different. 'Essylt?' he started then. 'If you want to sleep, you should.'
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Marieke
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She crept closer to him, because the darkness seemed like a living thing that would swallow her once she’d close her eyes. After those visions, would she have quiet dreams? She thought not. A part of her really wanted him to go on caressing her; it didn’t matter where: her waist, her arm, her breasts. He hadn’t touched those at all. Rufus had, almost immediately. ‘Maybe I’ll fall asleep,’ she said into the shadows. ‘I don’t mind if you hold me the way you want to.’
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Sonja
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A smile softened his expression, though she would not see it. It was a somewhat pained smile, though, as she sent bolts of fire through him by pressing herself closer against him. Would she feel him? She almost had to; neither of them were wearing thick layers of clothes. He put his arm on hers, his hand over her shoulder. His fingers found a single curl totwirl around his fingers.
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Marieke
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In the dense silence, she closed her eyes and felt his fingers twirl through her hair. It was one of the nicest feelings she’d had in a long while; softly tickling, making her skin breathe, making her want to lean in on him even closer. But lower, she felt what had made her panic when Rufus had positioned himself on top of her. It must be unbearable for him. ‘But if you want to get away, you can.’
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Sonja
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'I'll remember that,' he said. Perhaps he would have to, soon. But he'd rather postpone it until she was well asleep. 'You're a special girl, Essylt. It's a good thing,' he said in her ear.
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Marieke
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‘And you’re a good man,’ she said, feeling the warmth of his breath prickle on her skin as he said the words so close to her face. ‘You want me much more than you’re showing.’ It was so much easier to say these things when it was dark. The whole world altered at night.
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Sonja
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'I won't deny that,' he muttered and cleared his throat.
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Marieke
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‘It’s not an insult.’ Quite the opposite. The more she thought about it, the more she felt like a butterfly. Taking his hand from her shoulder, she placed it gingerly on her one breast. ‘I don’t think I would be so terrified if you did this,’ she breathed. Not if he touched her with the lightness of an owl’s wing, a breath of moonlight.
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Sonja
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'It's probably not an...alltogether good idea to -' he started with his throat dry as the plains in summer. Her breast felt light and cool, and soft through the fabric of her clothes. His self-control wouldn't last much longer. She might not be terrified, but he was starting to get really quite nervous now. 'It feels...too nice.'
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Marieke
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It did feel nice. She felt something tingle on the skin beneath her clothes, though he was hardly pressing his fingers down. Essylt slipped her hand away from his. ‘I’m sorry. I’m probably not thinking.’
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Sonja
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'Don't be. I just - be right back.' He was panting as he got up and made for the door. The night was cool, enveloping him like a blanket. He imagined it was what it would feel like to have Essylt's naked body pressing against him. That thought in itself was enough to make further action almost unnecessary. Not long after he leaned against the poles of the settlement wall. The trembling had stopped, and the chilly breeze, among other things, had cleared his mind again. Morcant marvelled at the beauty of the stars this night. They looked like the sparkles in Essylt's eyes.
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Marieke
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She didn’t move as he dashed away from her. It was so sudden that she was sure he’d had enough of it. She had made him angry again, but this time she couldn’t blame him; she had only been thinking about herself. Essylt moved her arms up as a pillow, hiding her face in them. If he wasn’t going to come back, she’d have to think of a way to make it right to him. Of course, sleeping with him would sufficiently do the trick…But could she? Even if she wanted to, she had no guarantee that her body wouldn’t respond exactly as it had to Rufus.

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Sonja
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Now that his body had stopped shouting at him, Morcant thought he could manage laying next to Essylt without any trouble quite as strong as he'd just experienced. If she still wanted him to, that was... He thought she did, considering where she had placed her hand just before, but what would she think of what he'd been doing outside just now, perfectly natural though it may be? He took a breath and pulled his shoulders back. Only one way to find out.
'Sorry about that,' he said quietly as he closed the door behind him.
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Marieke
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He didn’t sound angry. Maybe he had kicked something to dispose of that. Essylt swallowed. ‘That’s quite alright. If you were annoyed you can tell me.’
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Sonja
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'Annoyed?' He blinked. 'I wasn't. I just needed to... get a bit of fresh air.' She had her back to him, though he could hardly see her for the lack of light in the room. The thought of her body was enough to make the heat spread through his loins again, though this time it was easily bearable. Morcant sat down on the blankets, wanting to assume their previous position but not quite daring to.
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Marieke
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‘Oh.’ She wanted to shift to see him, but suddenly understood what he meant and didn’t think she wanted to show her glowing face. ‘Oh, gods. I’m sorry, Morcant.’
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