candle in the window
What do you see When you look at the rain? What do you hear when it falls? What do you feel when it finally touches you?
Chapter 16
"What was he thinking?" Raseleane asked, confused as the dragon fighter.
"You're going to let him walk away?!" Ruwalk whispered his protest.
***
"Wait." Kai-Stern stopped his lord with a word. They were standing side by side now.
***
"Yes!" Ruwalk whispered the small victory. Raseleane grinned.
***
"I was, um...wondering if I could speak with you." Light yellow eyes had a difficult time focusing on his lord. He stole a glance at Minna, still unsure who she was. The girl's violet eyes looked away.
***
"Now's you're chance." Raseleane noticed the eye contact and whispered her cheers for her lady in waiting.
"Minna." Devlin spoke her name under his breath.
***
"But if it's a bother..." Kai-Stern added, looking away. The lady was holding a large bundle of cloth in her arms, the blond lord was probably busy with something.
***
"What are you doing?!" Raseleane and Ruwalk synchronized their whispers, practically crawling over poor Devlin.
***
"Not at all, but...will this be a private discussion?" Lykouleon turned to Minna.
"Well, yes." Light yellow eyes admitted to green.
"Would you excuse us, Minna?" Violet eyes looked between her superiors and she nodded.
***
"Wait, where is Minna going?" Raseleane asked, watching her walk away, her silver bangs covering her expression. Devlin sat back and heaved a sigh of relief.
"Yes." Ruwalk pressed himself against the wall and dared to come closer.
***
"I would have liked to walk with you, but the rain..." Kai-Stern told his lord.
"I like the rain." Green eyes told the blue dragon officer. Light yellow eyes locked with his for a moment, a silence lingered between them.
***
"What's happening?" Devlin whispered to the intense watchers.
***
"Did you hear that?" Kai-Stern looked down the hall.
"Perhaps we should find a more private location." Lykouleon suggested. The Dragon Lord wasn't sure what this conversation was going to be about, but he was nervous and Kai-Stern's nervousness wasn't helping. "Besides," he smiled at their private joke. "I don't think we are alone."
"Right." The blue dragon officer understood his meaning. He opened the door to his room. "Is this okay? It's usually clean and always private."
***
"Bold." Ruwalk whispered, as close as he could creep to the two dragons.
***
"It's fine." the blond stepped in, with his natural poise and grace. "Wow," The dragon lord exclaimed as Kai-Stern closed the door behind them. "You have so many things from you're travels don't you?" He noticed unusual objects all over the room.
***
"What are you doing?" Devlin blushed as Ruwalk cupped his ear against the door.
"That's going too far. It's eavesdropping." Raseleane protested, her hands at her hips.
"That's what we've been doing." The Dragon Fighter felt a sweat drop on his temple.
***
"They aren't tourist souvenirs if that's what you're thinking. All of these mean something special to me."
"Memento's?" He picked up a small jeweled box that might hold a treasure. The green eyed dragon turned it in his fingers before replacing it.
"Something like that." Light yellow eyes turned to the balcony doors before he went to them.
"This is the first time I've been in your room." Lykouleon was trying to make a lot of idol conversation. "You keep everything so well organized." That was surprising. The lord decided he would just keep talking until he was stopped. The Dragon Lord wasn't sure What Kai-Stern wanted and was even less sure he wanted his officer to get to the point.
"I guess, although, I mostly maintain it." Kai-Stern opened the large glass doors and cool air rushed in. "It's always clean when I get home, even dusted." The pounding rain was even louder now.
***
"That rain," Ruwalk mumbled, "I can't..."
"Uh, Sir?" Devlin nudged his superior.
"Don't bother me now." the brunet shooed the other away.
"But sir," the young dragon fighter urged. The yellow dragon officer felt the nudge again.
"I told you," Ruwalk spun around to meet Alfeegi nose to nose. Devlin looked sorry and the queen was no where to be found. She's fast, that one. "I'm innnnnnnnnspecting the door!" The brown eyed dragon spun around and looked focused on the dark inlay bordering the door's lighter colored panels. The yellow dragon officer could practically hear the strawberry blond's irritation, and it didn't sound good.
***
"You like the rain," The blond lord concluded. Despite how much time had passed since they first met, there was so much the lord didn't know about his officer, "don't you?"
"Huh?" Kai-Stern turned back to his lord, sure he heard something, but the rain was pounding so loudly on the balcony.
"I said..." Lykouleon spoke up.
"What?" The albino had to shout now and so was force to reconsider leaving the balcony doors open. "Hold on a second." He mumbled. The blond lord couldn't hear a word he said so the green eyed dragon decided that proximity would probably help.
***
"Yes, yes." Ruwalk nodded. "No leaks here." The brown and red haired dragon stood up straight and distinguished.
Brown eyes stole a glance at the Chief Secretary. Alfeegi's eyes were shut, his jaw was tight and his arms were folded in front of him. Not good, not good. The Secretary of State thought desperately for an escape. The yellow dragon officer cleared his throat, trying to look satisfied at his 'work.'
"Come Devlin." Ruwalk announced moving away from the door. "We'll check the doors in the east wing."
"S, Sir!" The young dragon fighter was quick to obey.
***
Kai-Stern went to close the large glass doors as Lykouleon approached. The storm seemed to be getting worse every minute. It reminded the albino of a costal storm rather than inland. The wind pressed on the doors from the out side as the blue dragon officer pushed from the inside.
***
"I don't think so." Alfeegi's arm seemed to stretch as his hand caught the yellow dragon officer's collar and jerked him back to the scene of the crime. "It seems that you have too much time on your hands." The white dragon officer kept dragging his fellow officer as he marched down the hall, away from Kai-Stern's chambers. "Allow me to remedy that." Ruwalk's shoulders slumped as he sighed in defeat, letting his heels drag on the marble floor. The young dragon fighter follow.
***
"Kai-Stern, close the door!" Lykouleon shouted over the wind and the falling rain.
"I'm trying!" The Secretary of Foreign Affairs shouted back. You have to be careful with glass doors or they might brake "Almost got it." Kai-Stern grit his teeth for one last push.
The blue dragon officer's finger tips felt cold, the wind and the rain bombarded his skin. Just then, a huge gust of wind like the sigh from a god, beat the door open. The sudden pressure threw the albino back against the blond lord.
"Ah!" Lykouleon exclaimed, finding himself sandwiched by a throw rug and a heavy blue dragon officer. "Ouch." The dragon lord winced, carefully touching his blond head. The body covering him, gasped suddenly and his muscles moved and jerked chaotically. "Kai-Stern?" Green eyes watched his friend intently as the lord rolled him over, on to the floor.
"What's wrong?" The blond lord sat closely beside him. Light yellow eyes glanced about, as if he were totally disoriented, as if...he wasn't seeing his room or Lykouleon. "Kai-Stern!" The dragon lord shouted for his friend. Strangely, the storm had become suddenly mild. The rain fell softly and the wind was non-existent.
"Wind blows," Kai-Stern had pulled his hands over his eyes and mumbled. "Rain falls, Fire burns, Earth stands. The dragon is one..."
"Kai-Stern, What are you saying? I don't understand." Lykouleon couldn't be sure how to translate this behavior. Was this a side effect from what happened since Luwa? If so, what could have effected his officer in this way?
"Choose, choose." The albino sat up and shook his head. "We don't choose, we can't choose." The green eyed lord was completely baffled. In all his years, only possession could effect dragons in this way, but... "The knights and the dragons the dragons and the knights..." Lykouleon couldn't see or feel any sort of dark magic or demon presence, but his officer was raving.
"What's happening to you?" The Dragon Lord pulled the blue dragon officer's hands from his face. "Stop it!" Green eyes couldn't watch this anymore, he was talking nonsense. This is not Kai-Stern! "Come back!" The blond lord ordered his officer.
This seemed to make the frosty haired dragon pause. Taking hold of The albino's arms, the blond dragon leaned close, watching for his eyes to open. There would be something...there had to be something his eyes could reveal about this. The blond's brow knotted with concern. His eyes didn't open.
"Please," Lykouleon was barely an inch away from his friend's face. Green eyes focused on his pale lids. "Open your eyes." He could feeling warm breath tickle his lips and a blush rose to his cheeks.
Oh no! I'm such an idiot. The lord wanted to slap himself, thinking of such things while his friend suffered. It's wrong! And yet...Kai-Stern, you're so close, the dragon lord's thoughts pulled at him, it would be so easy to just...
"Come back to me." Lykouleon, whispered wanting so badly to look into those light yellow pools.
The albino's pained expression seemed to melt away, smoothing out his features. Open your eyes! Lykouleon forced himself to focus and waited for the moment. Green eyes blinked, noticing the silky smoothness of short, frosty locks under his fingers. When did I...
The blond caught his breath when milky hands, like silk and cream, touched the lord. Kai-Stern, the green eyed dragon glanced at each hand then back at his face. The dragon lord sensed it before those pale lips made contact with his, just lightly.
The Dragon Lord heard a change in the other's breathing as one hand came to his waist and the other slid over his thigh. Lykouleon's heart began to beat faster. Is this really happening? That feeling again, the blond remembered, that desire only for more of this taste and this touch. Their lips met and parted in slow, sweet kisses.
Lykouleon started feeling light headed as green eyes closed. His heart was telling him to touch and kiss, while his brain was reminding him of the last time, the first time, they had kissed. Kai-Stern told his lord that he had made a mistake. Since it was the blond who actually took the plunge, it meant the mistake was Lykouleon's.
The green eyed dragon's heart thumped in his chest. Am I doing this? He was so serious before, needing to tell me something important. I have to...I have to stop this but...Wanting, clutching hands, took fist fulls of the albino's fluffy shirt. Straining against his own desires, he pushed himself back. The dragon lord scooted a few feet away. Not confident he could stand after the barrage of emotions good and bad. Satisfied with the distance, he took a few calming breaths.
"Lykouleon?"
What do you see When you look at the rain? What do you hear when it falls? What do you feel when it finally touches you?
Chapter 16
"What was he thinking?" Raseleane asked, confused as the dragon fighter.
"You're going to let him walk away?!" Ruwalk whispered his protest.
***
"Wait." Kai-Stern stopped his lord with a word. They were standing side by side now.
***
"Yes!" Ruwalk whispered the small victory. Raseleane grinned.
***
"I was, um...wondering if I could speak with you." Light yellow eyes had a difficult time focusing on his lord. He stole a glance at Minna, still unsure who she was. The girl's violet eyes looked away.
***
"Now's you're chance." Raseleane noticed the eye contact and whispered her cheers for her lady in waiting.
"Minna." Devlin spoke her name under his breath.
***
"But if it's a bother..." Kai-Stern added, looking away. The lady was holding a large bundle of cloth in her arms, the blond lord was probably busy with something.
***
"What are you doing?!" Raseleane and Ruwalk synchronized their whispers, practically crawling over poor Devlin.
***
"Not at all, but...will this be a private discussion?" Lykouleon turned to Minna.
"Well, yes." Light yellow eyes admitted to green.
"Would you excuse us, Minna?" Violet eyes looked between her superiors and she nodded.
***
"Wait, where is Minna going?" Raseleane asked, watching her walk away, her silver bangs covering her expression. Devlin sat back and heaved a sigh of relief.
"Yes." Ruwalk pressed himself against the wall and dared to come closer.
***
"I would have liked to walk with you, but the rain..." Kai-Stern told his lord.
"I like the rain." Green eyes told the blue dragon officer. Light yellow eyes locked with his for a moment, a silence lingered between them.
***
"What's happening?" Devlin whispered to the intense watchers.
***
"Did you hear that?" Kai-Stern looked down the hall.
"Perhaps we should find a more private location." Lykouleon suggested. The Dragon Lord wasn't sure what this conversation was going to be about, but he was nervous and Kai-Stern's nervousness wasn't helping. "Besides," he smiled at their private joke. "I don't think we are alone."
"Right." The blue dragon officer understood his meaning. He opened the door to his room. "Is this okay? It's usually clean and always private."
***
"Bold." Ruwalk whispered, as close as he could creep to the two dragons.
***
"It's fine." the blond stepped in, with his natural poise and grace. "Wow," The dragon lord exclaimed as Kai-Stern closed the door behind them. "You have so many things from you're travels don't you?" He noticed unusual objects all over the room.
***
"What are you doing?" Devlin blushed as Ruwalk cupped his ear against the door.
"That's going too far. It's eavesdropping." Raseleane protested, her hands at her hips.
"That's what we've been doing." The Dragon Fighter felt a sweat drop on his temple.
***
"They aren't tourist souvenirs if that's what you're thinking. All of these mean something special to me."
"Memento's?" He picked up a small jeweled box that might hold a treasure. The green eyed dragon turned it in his fingers before replacing it.
"Something like that." Light yellow eyes turned to the balcony doors before he went to them.
"This is the first time I've been in your room." Lykouleon was trying to make a lot of idol conversation. "You keep everything so well organized." That was surprising. The lord decided he would just keep talking until he was stopped. The Dragon Lord wasn't sure What Kai-Stern wanted and was even less sure he wanted his officer to get to the point.
"I guess, although, I mostly maintain it." Kai-Stern opened the large glass doors and cool air rushed in. "It's always clean when I get home, even dusted." The pounding rain was even louder now.
***
"That rain," Ruwalk mumbled, "I can't..."
"Uh, Sir?" Devlin nudged his superior.
"Don't bother me now." the brunet shooed the other away.
"But sir," the young dragon fighter urged. The yellow dragon officer felt the nudge again.
"I told you," Ruwalk spun around to meet Alfeegi nose to nose. Devlin looked sorry and the queen was no where to be found. She's fast, that one. "I'm innnnnnnnnspecting the door!" The brown eyed dragon spun around and looked focused on the dark inlay bordering the door's lighter colored panels. The yellow dragon officer could practically hear the strawberry blond's irritation, and it didn't sound good.
***
"You like the rain," The blond lord concluded. Despite how much time had passed since they first met, there was so much the lord didn't know about his officer, "don't you?"
"Huh?" Kai-Stern turned back to his lord, sure he heard something, but the rain was pounding so loudly on the balcony.
"I said..." Lykouleon spoke up.
"What?" The albino had to shout now and so was force to reconsider leaving the balcony doors open. "Hold on a second." He mumbled. The blond lord couldn't hear a word he said so the green eyed dragon decided that proximity would probably help.
***
"Yes, yes." Ruwalk nodded. "No leaks here." The brown and red haired dragon stood up straight and distinguished.
Brown eyes stole a glance at the Chief Secretary. Alfeegi's eyes were shut, his jaw was tight and his arms were folded in front of him. Not good, not good. The Secretary of State thought desperately for an escape. The yellow dragon officer cleared his throat, trying to look satisfied at his 'work.'
"Come Devlin." Ruwalk announced moving away from the door. "We'll check the doors in the east wing."
"S, Sir!" The young dragon fighter was quick to obey.
***
Kai-Stern went to close the large glass doors as Lykouleon approached. The storm seemed to be getting worse every minute. It reminded the albino of a costal storm rather than inland. The wind pressed on the doors from the out side as the blue dragon officer pushed from the inside.
***
"I don't think so." Alfeegi's arm seemed to stretch as his hand caught the yellow dragon officer's collar and jerked him back to the scene of the crime. "It seems that you have too much time on your hands." The white dragon officer kept dragging his fellow officer as he marched down the hall, away from Kai-Stern's chambers. "Allow me to remedy that." Ruwalk's shoulders slumped as he sighed in defeat, letting his heels drag on the marble floor. The young dragon fighter follow.
***
"Kai-Stern, close the door!" Lykouleon shouted over the wind and the falling rain.
"I'm trying!" The Secretary of Foreign Affairs shouted back. You have to be careful with glass doors or they might brake "Almost got it." Kai-Stern grit his teeth for one last push.
The blue dragon officer's finger tips felt cold, the wind and the rain bombarded his skin. Just then, a huge gust of wind like the sigh from a god, beat the door open. The sudden pressure threw the albino back against the blond lord.
"Ah!" Lykouleon exclaimed, finding himself sandwiched by a throw rug and a heavy blue dragon officer. "Ouch." The dragon lord winced, carefully touching his blond head. The body covering him, gasped suddenly and his muscles moved and jerked chaotically. "Kai-Stern?" Green eyes watched his friend intently as the lord rolled him over, on to the floor.
"What's wrong?" The blond lord sat closely beside him. Light yellow eyes glanced about, as if he were totally disoriented, as if...he wasn't seeing his room or Lykouleon. "Kai-Stern!" The dragon lord shouted for his friend. Strangely, the storm had become suddenly mild. The rain fell softly and the wind was non-existent.
"Wind blows," Kai-Stern had pulled his hands over his eyes and mumbled. "Rain falls, Fire burns, Earth stands. The dragon is one..."
"Kai-Stern, What are you saying? I don't understand." Lykouleon couldn't be sure how to translate this behavior. Was this a side effect from what happened since Luwa? If so, what could have effected his officer in this way?
"Choose, choose." The albino sat up and shook his head. "We don't choose, we can't choose." The green eyed lord was completely baffled. In all his years, only possession could effect dragons in this way, but... "The knights and the dragons the dragons and the knights..." Lykouleon couldn't see or feel any sort of dark magic or demon presence, but his officer was raving.
"What's happening to you?" The Dragon Lord pulled the blue dragon officer's hands from his face. "Stop it!" Green eyes couldn't watch this anymore, he was talking nonsense. This is not Kai-Stern! "Come back!" The blond lord ordered his officer.
This seemed to make the frosty haired dragon pause. Taking hold of The albino's arms, the blond dragon leaned close, watching for his eyes to open. There would be something...there had to be something his eyes could reveal about this. The blond's brow knotted with concern. His eyes didn't open.
"Please," Lykouleon was barely an inch away from his friend's face. Green eyes focused on his pale lids. "Open your eyes." He could feeling warm breath tickle his lips and a blush rose to his cheeks.
Oh no! I'm such an idiot. The lord wanted to slap himself, thinking of such things while his friend suffered. It's wrong! And yet...Kai-Stern, you're so close, the dragon lord's thoughts pulled at him, it would be so easy to just...
"Come back to me." Lykouleon, whispered wanting so badly to look into those light yellow pools.
The albino's pained expression seemed to melt away, smoothing out his features. Open your eyes! Lykouleon forced himself to focus and waited for the moment. Green eyes blinked, noticing the silky smoothness of short, frosty locks under his fingers. When did I...
The blond caught his breath when milky hands, like silk and cream, touched the lord. Kai-Stern, the green eyed dragon glanced at each hand then back at his face. The dragon lord sensed it before those pale lips made contact with his, just lightly.
The Dragon Lord heard a change in the other's breathing as one hand came to his waist and the other slid over his thigh. Lykouleon's heart began to beat faster. Is this really happening? That feeling again, the blond remembered, that desire only for more of this taste and this touch. Their lips met and parted in slow, sweet kisses.
Lykouleon started feeling light headed as green eyes closed. His heart was telling him to touch and kiss, while his brain was reminding him of the last time, the first time, they had kissed. Kai-Stern told his lord that he had made a mistake. Since it was the blond who actually took the plunge, it meant the mistake was Lykouleon's.
The green eyed dragon's heart thumped in his chest. Am I doing this? He was so serious before, needing to tell me something important. I have to...I have to stop this but...Wanting, clutching hands, took fist fulls of the albino's fluffy shirt. Straining against his own desires, he pushed himself back. The dragon lord scooted a few feet away. Not confident he could stand after the barrage of emotions good and bad. Satisfied with the distance, he took a few calming breaths.
"Lykouleon?"
