Chapter 7 – Intimacy

Daine woke up. Her head throbbed violently. She let her hand search up to her forehead and found a small bump. She opened her eyes. A dim light shone through the window. Window ... she had no window in her room. Slowly she raised her head, but let it fall back down into beds. She lay as in a bed, it was very nice. She moved a little on himself. Her stomach clenched together. This was not her bed. This one was too soft for her taste. Where was she? She remembered that she had fainted, but what had happened she did not. Daine sighed, the only place she could think of that was so soft beds were in the hospital wing. Okay ... they may have put her in one of the rooms, after they had found her. Daine froze.
She was not alone in the room ... in bed she noted. She could hear the deep breathing, the person concerned slept heavily. Where was she? Not in the hospital wing, there was only one man's beds. She turned her body a bit ... another reality dawned on her. She was naked except for some panties.

She took a deep breath and let her consciousness seek out the nearest animal. She was lucky. In the next room was the mouse on the floor who ate the little crumbs that had fallen on the floor.

"Sister ... do you have the time?" She asked quietly.

The mouse stopped and sat on her legs while it sniffed. "Calling ... who?"

Daine sighed. Mouse was not one of the smartest animals, but it was the only one around.

"May I borrow your eyes ... I want to see who is next to me" she continued. "I'll put some more food out tomorrow," she promised. Most animals thought only of the stomach, and this mouse was no exception.

"Food ..." The mouse went off to the room where Daine was in.

Daine called a little spark of her magic and a moment later she saw the floor in mouse height. The mouse scurried across the floor and squeezed in between the door and door frame. It ran across the floor with little legs, and a scent of sweet beat against Daine. She recognized it as blood.

The mouse continued across the floor and took the opportunity to climb up. The blanket, over the sleeping figure beside her, hung down to the floor. It did not take many seconds before it was up. Daine and mouse ran across the large chest, which rose and fell with every breath.
The mouse reached the ultimate goal and stopped. Daine had seen everything in black and white, but his face in front of the mouse knew she had a different color. The soft lips she knew only too well, softness, sweetness coming from the kisses these lips delivered. Daine smiled and became hot in the body. She recognized the man as her former teacher.

"Thank you," she whispered to the mouse.

The mouse sniffed a moment to Numair and sneezed. "Food" was the only thing Daine heard from it before it disappeared the same way it had come.

She retired to her own consciousness. Uh ... her little excursion gave her more headaches. She turned and lay down on the side, the movement got Numair to rotate. Daine noticed how his body lay close to her and how their skin burned like fire in touch. Numair was restless, she noticed how he struggled with the blanket over them. Daine waited patiently for him too settle, and barely managed to stop a little gasp that was about to escape her lips as Numair's hips bumped against her lower back.

He was naked. She felt his stomach against her back, how her skin was warmed by his and how the very most private bodypart, which now lay between her thighs, pulsed in line with his heart. She had never considered that he slept naked when he was in his private chambers. When they were on the move, which they had been many times, he always sleept in a pair of threadbare trousers and a light white blouse. Daine smiled, she had always thought that his choice of nightwear was nice, as it sometimes had shown the lines of every muscle he had and how well equipped he was.
There had been mornings when thay had been forced to jump out of their camp beds, due to attack from the immortals or others that would like to take their lives, she had seen the outline of Numair's male part.

She heard Numair sighing deeply. He lay with his face against her neck. Daine hardly dared to move, but the touch between them sent heat waves of pleasure through her body. Her headache eased a bit and became only a faint feeling. There was a moment, then she noticed how the big hand was placed against the lower part of her stomach and Numair pulled her close to him. Now she could not help but notice what state he was in, and it caused her to drop a light sigh.

"Are you awake?" Numair's voice was deeper than usual. Daine had never heard this passionate voice before.

"Yes" she replied quietly.

"Good"

She noticed how Numair's hand wandered up her stomach. The fingers caressed every inch of skin on the way, and reached one of her breasts. Daine wanted it stopped there, but it continued up, up towards her neck and endede at her cheek. He cautious turned her head, and a pair of lips met hers. She answered the demanding and deep kiss, and enjoyed the taste of him. His whole odor, sweat, taste oozed excitement. She turned her body to his. His kiss became deeper while his tongue began to play with hers. Daine noticed how Numair's hand slid down over her shoulders and down to her buttocks. He pushed her first closer to him, and then lift his body slightly so he went up over her. Daine noticed how their lips hung together during the movement. She met the weight of his body by opening up her legs... However, reality hit her. He was naked ... she was not. She let go of his hair and let her hands go back to the barrier between them, slowly she began to push her panties down.

"No ... Daine ... we can not" Numair's voice was deeper.

"Why?" She was confused. His body above her required access, but he said no.

She saw how the room lit up a little from the magic he created. Now she could see his face and hazel eyes. She simply loved this man who lay over her. Numair moved slightly up and lay down beside her. She noticed how he took her chain with badger claw.

"Because of this" He explained.

Daine was now complete disappointed and confused ... this? Her badger claw ... what did it had to do with the situation and them not being together. "I do not understand ..."

Numair both sighed and laughed at the same time. He stroked his fingers lightly over her forehead. "Do you know how you ended up here?" He asked.

"Yes ... you kissed me in the realm of the gods ... and kissed me since, but what does it has to with this?" Daine could feel the irritation begin.

"Daine ... I mean, you know what happened after you got home from the woods?" Numair leaned forward and kissed her gently on her forehead.

"I ... I had it bad ... and so ..." Daine stopped. She could not remember more. Although she wrung her brain, she had no idea how she had ended up in Numair's bed. "I can not remember it."

"You fainted ... I found you in your room ... you bled" Numair had moved the kisses down to her mouth.

"Bled ... from where?" She tried, but her memory was like a black hole.

Numair let one hand search down her stomach and lay gently against her abdomen outside her panties. "Here ... dear ... you got your bleeding today."

Daine winced embarrassed. Now it made total sense. Her headache in wolf form, her dizziness, pain in the stomach, her vomiting in the woods ... "Oh" was all that came from her. Why had it been him whohad found her. She could have make do with Onua, or Alanna, or the Queen ... any other than him when it came to something so private.

"I called Alanna, she knows about us and gave us her blessing. She stopped the bleeding, but ... "

"But we can not be together, because I am still ..."

She could see that Numair nodded. "But what does that have to do with my badger claw, Numair? I still do not understand! "

She was being thoroughly frustrated. Patience had never been one of her unique characteristics.

"Shhh ..." Numair stroked a lock of hair in place behind her ear. "I and Alanna have put a pregnancy charm on it ... a gift in memory of your new life."

"Oh" Again, it was all she could say. She did not expect that Numair had remembered something as important as protection against pregnancy. Then it hit her ... her new life? "My new life?"

"Yes, your new life ... no need to play hide and seek, from tomorrow on, I will show the world my love for you ... all should know that you are mine".

She felt her stomach clenched together. This was what she always wanted ... the hard times after the wars and the realm of the gods was finally over. Daine touched the jewelry and the smooth metal. She smiled. "I love you" was all she could get over her lips.

"I know" Numair's voice was again the same deep tone as when he woke up and she felt again the hard pressure from him against her thigh. His lips sought hers and she answered his deep long kiss while he moved again, so he lay on top of her. Daine wrapped her legs around his hips. Their kiss was similar to the movements between them.

It was a little short, I know ... but the next chapters will be like the previous one. Prepare yourselves for a little more action, a little more romance, a little more courtship ... and I am amazed that there are no one who have tried to guess who the man with the scar is. I'll give small hints in the next chapters to come.