Hearing Your Voice In The Storm

Chapter summary: He was drowning.


And darkness swallowed him.

Chaos, swirling, covering him in tsunami waves of blackness... Emotions, deep and strange, and yet so surprisingly human... Hunger. Delight in feeding, sweet, intoxicating taste of the woman's terror... Hunting, choosing his prey. The heady power to decide who's to live and who's to die... A flicker of mercy, because of a girl's understanding of beauty... Curiosity. Boundless, ever-present, burning need to know. Whether God exists, whether it's possible to Tame the fae enough to get the stars back, Terra back. A sense of terrible unfairness because even if it could be done, he is doomed to stay on Erna, with fae and fear the only things to sustain him...

Wait. He struggled to separate himself, struggled for the surface, only there wasn't a surface, not here, deep within where the forging of their link had taken them. Only those emotions the Hunter's beautiful face so expertly hid, and for a moment Damien wondered what had happened to the other man to make such a self-control necessary. Yet another tsunami was cresting and he looked around, searching for something to latch on – and there it was, the same small, blindingly bright light that he'd been plunged into just moments ago, and he dived, finding and feeling that intense curiosity again. And deeper yet, into the core, and there was more light and a pain so endless that Damien's heart nearly shattered.

Surprise, at that, not his own. Understanding, slow in coming. Thankfulness. And the silky voice whispered, in wonder. Damien...

He met the other with open eyes and without fear. Gerald.

The link flared to life.