A/N: Written for the
Diversity Writing Challenge, g3 – a drabble collection consisting of drabbles of exactly 100 words
Becoming the Tamer King Challenge, Data Forest task - drabble collection focused on a character or group of characters
The Halloween Drabble Collection Celebration – 45 drabbles, nature theme
natural
1: phoenix
He's on fire. His flesh should peel and melt off his body like boiled potatoes but it doesn't. Instead, they kiss already sun-kissed skin and leave glistening marks of their conquest of him. Their fingers slither beneath his clothes, skin, muscle and bone and right into his heart where the blood most ferociously boils. And once they're there, they spread into every crevice in soul and body, and he's on fire inside and out and should melt into a puddle or explode into a cloud of gas – but instead he's a phoenix who's reborn and the flames become his sword.