Reveries

by Sylvanius

So many paths; so many journeys. So many ways to find one another. Collection of prompt-driven shorts focusing on Daine and Numair as they navigate shared moments. Each entry stands alone and is not connected to one another. Mix of genres, and canon-compliant and au-based.

4. Ribbon

She responded, sinking into him and arching her back. He should pull back, he knew, but she pressed herself against him and he was helpless. Hopeless.

For all of the fight he'd put up for so many years, surrender came so easily now.

They were supposed to be somewhere, he was sure. Somewhere else. Anywhere but there —sunk into that dark corner where vines and shadows both reached for them like he reached for her. She broke away, long enough for him to consider reigning himself in but not so long that he tried. Her lips were on his again in less than a heartbeat—they came so unsteady in that moment—and her hands gripped at his robe as she pulled him to her. Closer, closer; was there ever such a thing as close enough? Not yet. His hands threaded through her hair, pulling the carefully pinned curls and feeling the ribbon that secured them unravel, and deepened the kiss.