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Title: Impulse
Pairing: Ludwig/Orpherus
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 98
Summary: It's an exercise in restraint.

Ludwig Herzog von Mohn Liechtenstein is a busy man. Regrettably, on most nights, Distraction prances naked through his dreams.

In these dreams, he shields his eyes. Hot whispers cross with him into the waking world, and Distraction is there too. ("Won't you dance with me?"). He won't.

This Distraction is warped and fractured, a pretty boy with starlight in his eyes. So frightfully easy to read. Too vibrant. Too fierce. Too passionate. His blatancy exceeds all bounds.

That summer's day, they dance, metal to pulsing skin. That summer's eve, they dance again.

Three duels, and all is lost.

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