[ Her love hurts them. Ilde lifts one of her hands and curves it to the side of Angel's face. Her love hurts them. Like Dreus's fingertips burning into her skin when he would lay even the most thoughtless of touches upon her. He had loved her, and his love had burned, left little purple scars across her arms and shoulders, the outsides of her knees, up her shins. Her skin lights up with the memory of it, the stinging touch of a man who loved her, protected her, placed on a pedestal, and swore that no man would ever have.
She will have to be very gentle with them. So as not to frighten them, so as not to agitate the wounds that others left upon them. Guide them carefully to know that her love came with no demands. The word need not be said.
Ilde has only been kissed once or twice in her life. The others had been boys in the night, the kind of juvenile pecking that one placed upon a weeping girl after surviving the terrors of the night, to live another scorching day in the wastes. This is by far the superior experience. With a girl she knows down to her bones, one with strength and gentleness who struggles to make sense of her newfound freedom after a life beneath a tyrant's burning love.
[ Her eyes are shut and her fingers locked with Ilde's and she sits so very, very still, because she wants it is so - and it's the wanting that scares her so. Because she is so empty of sunlight, she knows, so desperate to grasp for it.
But she finds as then, she knows not what to do with herself. Feels her breath speeding up, the quick rise and fall of her chest. The prickle she can feel in the back of her throat. The flowers of the day dream pick up on a breeze that is the unsurety of herself. Twisting about in the haze of it all.
It's no rejection, far from it, it's simply to be overwhelmed and she doesn't know what to do with herself even slightly. To push back even a little, to pull away - how, how to do this? ]
(How... how do I kiss you?)
[ Let her have this again, please, as often as she may. She is so addicted to touch, it feels all the empty hollows that eridium left. Addicted to the light the hive gives her on her otherwise dead skin and Ilde is warm, so warm and she just - she makes a noise, soft and quiet and it's thought and caught in her throat without form. It's so, so much. ]
[ That white-knuckled determination reminds Ilde of those boys in the firelight for a moment. The desperation to feel, for relief. It brings her an odd kind of nostalgia, the kind of sad memory that is not exactly pleasant but quaint in its own way. In this remembering, however, it seems obvious to Ilde that such desperation is of no use. She is just as guilty, had turned her head to meet with Angel out of utter overwhelming need for relief, but some things become clearer to her when Angel needs her guidance.
One stumbling deer leading the other in turns, growing a little stronger with each attempt. ]
(I will kiss you as I would like to be kissed. You will do the same. And we will learn.)
[ She slips down then, sinking so she's more level to Ilde, shifting to be comfortable, trying to let the tension slip out of her shoulders, shake loose the breath stuck in her throat. Takes effort, little by little, until she looks up from under the fall of her hair at her.
It's not so much saying it - but she leans in this time of her own accord, and kisses her again in barely a brush of a thing, catching against the sulk of Ilde's lips, lingering to pull away slowly. A thready exhale as she pulls back so far as she can look her in the eyes again - and figures that is enough to say that - alright, she could do that. They seemed far too suited to meeting in the middle, it seemed. She was thankful for it. ]
[ Ilde's soft brown lashes lower, eyes closing, still and patient like a child courting a butterfly to land. She has no expectation, no demand from all this. For all her talk of love and kisses, she is overall chaste. Had Angel merely fluttered at her cheek it would have been more than enough. All of this was for affection and closeness, comfort and care.
She strokes the side of Angel's face, tilting her head forward and down in order to place her lips at her forehead, a physical gesture that this needn't be such a tribulation at all. ]
[ She stays still for her. Eyes shut, and smile tucked into the corner of her mouth. Something whimsical to all of this. Not sure where to go with it all - but finding herself unable to care either way. Warm and light and happy to have her in close. ]
(You are to me. It feels so good to finally be able to be with other people. But with you especially...)
[ There is something to that, even for Ilde. Other people had been there, physically, but they had all kept a deep emotional divide from one another. There was no point to doing otherwise, not when death claimed another and another and another, not when they were all waiting to die. Watching the phoenix grow larger and larger every night when the Godking would release it into the sky.
But Ilde did know about tenderness, despite it all. Dreus had taught her. For all his evils, he had shown her how to treasure what one loved most. To keep them safe and whole, no matter what. Fuckin' ominous as shit........ ]
(I was not so kind when we first met, but you made it very easy to change my mind.)
(You don't have to be, if you don't want to. I'd have you as you wanted to be. )
[ Can't stop, won't stop, probably aren't very good at stopping.
That being said, she shifts herself up then, another kiss, this one is not so delicate so much as taken quickly. A peck she steals with a giggle. Eyes lowered to watch her mouth, eyelashes soft against her cheek, the pink flush up her neck and in her cheeks. A little bit embarrassement, a little bit the heat of being so close and kissing her. ]
(I think I like this.)
[ nope they're still gross and awful. someone stop them. ]
[ Although Ilde's smile does not fade, there is something serious there to talk about, so she rubs the back of Angel's hand with her thumb thoughtlessly. ]
(I have been... ) [ Afraid isn't the word. It really doesn't encompass her emotions at all, the hunger and delight that also comes with the uncertainty and guilt. ] (Conflicted, on what is right now.)
[ And if anyone knows what she means it is assuredly Angel. All the things different between their troubles are set dressing to the core kernel. Vaunted as precious, special, perfect so long as they did the duty tasked to them. One angel above keeping watch, the other one below tending the earth.
But only so long as they did the duty tasked to them. ]
(It was not right for women like us to be powerful. But I am also tired of being powerless.)
[ She swallows, her eyes down. Nodding, she understands. Jack would be writihing in rage to know the things she had done - least of all needing other people but him. In pressing these feather light moments against Ilde's skin. He reserved the right to her love.
But it makes her only more determined now. ]
(We are not there anymore. Here, we need to be powerful. As... far as I understand. The hive is as strong as we are. )
[ She knows. She knows it rationally but shaking loose this piece, like a physical thing inside of her body where all that guilt collects... It's difficult. Always easier said than done.
She does not know what it will take to sever it. ]
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She will have to be very gentle with them. So as not to frighten them, so as not to agitate the wounds that others left upon them. Guide them carefully to know that her love came with no demands. The word need not be said.
Ilde has only been kissed once or twice in her life. The others had been boys in the night, the kind of juvenile pecking that one placed upon a weeping girl after surviving the terrors of the night, to live another scorching day in the wastes. This is by far the superior experience. With a girl she knows down to her bones, one with strength and gentleness who struggles to make sense of her newfound freedom after a life beneath a tyrant's burning love.
Ilde's kiss is warm like the sun. ]
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But she finds as then, she knows not what to do with herself. Feels her breath speeding up, the quick rise and fall of her chest. The prickle she can feel in the back of her throat. The flowers of the day dream pick up on a breeze that is the unsurety of herself. Twisting about in the haze of it all.
It's no rejection, far from it, it's simply to be overwhelmed and she doesn't know what to do with herself even slightly. To push back even a little, to pull away - how, how to do this? ]
( How... how do I kiss you? )
[ Let her have this again, please, as often as she may. She is so addicted to touch, it feels all the empty hollows that eridium left. Addicted to the light the hive gives her on her otherwise dead skin and Ilde is warm, so warm and she just - she makes a noise, soft and quiet and it's thought and caught in her throat without form. It's so, so much. ]
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One stumbling deer leading the other in turns, growing a little stronger with each attempt. ]
( I will kiss you as I would like to be kissed. You will do the same. And we will learn. )
[ Until they found each other in the middle. ]
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It's not so much saying it - but she leans in this time of her own accord, and kisses her again in barely a brush of a thing, catching against the sulk of Ilde's lips, lingering to pull away slowly. A thready exhale as she pulls back so far as she can look her in the eyes again - and figures that is enough to say that - alright, she could do that. They seemed far too suited to meeting in the middle, it seemed. She was thankful for it. ]
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She strokes the side of Angel's face, tilting her head forward and down in order to place her lips at her forehead, a physical gesture that this needn't be such a tribulation at all. ]
( You have been a good companion to me. )
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( You are to me. It feels so good to finally be able to be with other people. But with you especially... )
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But Ilde did know about tenderness, despite it all. Dreus had taught her. For all his evils, he had shown her how to treasure what one loved most. To keep them safe and whole, no matter what.
Fuckin' ominous as shit........]( I was not so kind when we first met, but you made it very easy to change my mind. )
[ Ew gross, bitches, stop flirting. ]
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[ Can't stop, won't stop, probably aren't very good at stopping.
That being said, she shifts herself up then, another kiss, this one is not so delicate so much as taken quickly. A peck she steals with a giggle. Eyes lowered to watch her mouth, eyelashes soft against her cheek, the pink flush up her neck and in her cheeks. A little bit embarrassement, a little bit the heat of being so close and kissing her. ]
( I think I like this. )
[ nope they're still gross and awful. someone stop them. ]
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( I have been... ) [ Afraid isn't the word. It really doesn't encompass her emotions at all, the hunger and delight that also comes with the uncertainty and guilt. ] ( Conflicted, on what is right now. )
[ And if anyone knows what she means it is assuredly Angel. All the things different between their troubles are set dressing to the core kernel. Vaunted as precious, special, perfect so long as they did the duty tasked to them. One angel above keeping watch, the other one below tending the earth.
But only so long as they did the duty tasked to them. ]
( It was not right for women like us to be powerful. But I am also tired of being powerless. )
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But it makes her only more determined now. ]
( We are not there anymore. Here, we need to be powerful. As... far as I understand. The hive is as strong as we are. )
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[ She knows. She knows it rationally but shaking loose this piece, like a physical thing inside of her body where all that guilt collects... It's difficult. Always easier said than done.
She does not know what it will take to sever it. ]
( It will come with time, I have to believe this. )