It was Solstice Eve. Had to be. The Pupil's seismic rumble was more intense, and didn't want to stop now. Din felt it through himself and through her where she lay encased in his arms with her back nestled against him. They made love half the night, but he was already getting hard again as he felt her waking.

He sighed indulgently, gathering the soft flesh of her belly in his palm, loving the texture of her skin there as he kissed the spot behind her ear that always made her tremble. She murmured and curled deeper into his arms, fighting a shiver that shot up her spine. He felt the path of electricity blaze from the base of his cock and up his torso, and he groaned desperately, thinking of how wet she must be as he dipped his fingertips into her folds. He gently grazed her clit, then suddenly he was tangled in ribbons as the sweet little bud tightened and puckered under his touch, his fingers drenched as he seductively smoothed a caress between the throbbing lips. He wanted more than anything to bury himself. Could already feel her hugging his cock in all that silk. But Din was in the mood for a challenge today.

"I'm going for a quick hunt, my Lady," he whispered against the back of her neck. He forced one finger through the wet lips as she bucked against him, moaning and reaching behind her to grasp a handful of his hair, begging for more. But he wouldn't answer her plea just yet. Betraying his body's insistent call, he held on tighter to bring her under control while he continued to challenge it with shallow thrusts of his finger. "Won't be long," he promised gruffly. "Storms today." Having said his piece, he devoured her neck in kisses as he slipped a second digit deep into the honey.

"Ah..." The sound whispered softly through her lips, and Din's heart and body swelled. She pressed her ass hard against him, burrowing deeper into his embrace as he stroked into her with his fingers, pulling a gentle line up and down the sensitive top wall of her as he sensed her losing control. She liked this, so he held on tighter, and focused all his powers of pleasure on making her cum.

"Din..." she whispered, then a soft, shaking sob as he felt the coming tempest build in his lover's womb. It was all he wanted right now. Tempt the tempest and watch it break across her face in the reflection of the window. To feel it around his fingers, flying though his blood and nerves. To hear that fucking beautiful sound again and again until she was screaming it to the suns. He gathered her closer, sliding his elbow under her to cross her chest with his forearm and take the soft swell of her breast in his empty palm. At the same moment, he drew his fingertip once more along the roof of her spasming pussy and back across her clit while he pressed hard kisses to the back of her neck, barely able to hold on to her as she squirmed and writhed in his embrace. "Din..." she whimpered... "Please… please, my Love… don't… don't… leave me... empty..."

"You still want me?" he whispered into her ear, swirling his fingers inside her while he squeezed her breast, and bathed in her ribbons as they flew out in every direction. "After last night... fucked so much I lost track... you still want me... in this perfect little pussy..."

With a series of deep, hard thrusts, she tossed her head back over his shoulder, and he caught her by the throat, gently squeezing the fine, graceful curve in his hand as he rubbed insistent circles around the rough patch inside her that had her bucking and thrashing against him. "Shit!" she choked, rubbing her ass more desperately against him, begging him to fuck her. "Please, my Love," she breathed. "Now… need you… the Solstice... need you in me now... aching… aching for you…"

"What if I made you wait?" Din whispered seductively in her ear, pumping his two fingers into her in slower, deeper strokes until she was nothing but a tangle of ribbons and shards of zillo hide. "What if... what if I made you wait for me... wait for this..." He levered his hips against her backside, until he was almost between her legs, less than an inch away from the heat he could feel from the tip of his cock to the ends of his toes. She jerked and shuddered in response, opening herself wider, practically panting while he savagely thrust his fingers into her, imagining how she would rush around him if he shifted just a few centimeters.

She was so close and he was so hard, he almost gave in. Waves of plasma pulsed through his erection until he was sure he'd lose his mind if he didn't bury himself. But he was committed to this challenge, and wanted to test the limit of his control. See how far the Solstice could push him before he broke. So he continued to resist, and shot upright to roughly pin her to her back, staring down into wild, hungry blue eyes before he shifted and levered her legs apart with one hand, then settled between them.

"Din!" she softly cried, almost in protest as he slung her thighs over his shoulders and dropped his head to bury his face in her, overwhelmed with her flavor and scent when she came the instant he pushed his tongue into her honey. But he didn't let up, and basked in it as her desire half drowned him, licking hard and deep into torrents of silk. Everything he loved. Everything he needed. Obsessed with how she gripped his hair like she would yank it out. How her breath heaved in desperate sobs and brief bursts of that beautiful "Ah!" How she tasted on his tongue when he licked hard over her clit and shoved his fingers into her again, taking possession. He wouldn't let her feel anything but this. This pleasure that exploded in a shredded burst of silk while her hips followed his movements, and she drew her arms up in a seizure of ecstasy.

"Don't make me wait," she sobbed, half in tears. "I want you inside me now. Don't make me wait, my Love. Please... Please... don't make me… don't…" Her words broke apart in her throat when he savagely thrust his fingers into that incredible spot that almost had her crawling out of her own body. "Aahhghh!"

The sound was louder, and Din was close to giving in again when she took her breasts in her hands, squeezing them and rolling her nipples between her fingers while his cock twitched and begged at the sight of it. He wanted to lick those nipples raw and pound her into the bunk. But he refused to acknowledge the urge, even when she came again in a massive explosion of steam and plasma. She lost her voice entirely as she gripped his hair and shot half upright while he caught all of it in his mouth, and let her watch him swallow it.

He dragged one more soft lick over her clit, then pressed kisses to her belly and looked up at her. She was destroyed and limp on her back, her breasts heaving as she stared up at the ceiling like she was only just remembering where she was. "Later, my Lady," he whispered before she could come to her senses. Before he could give in to all this temptation. "Later. I'll come home to you and take you any way you want me." Fuck you all night and into tomorrow. I'll be ready for you, thinking of this. How you taste. How much you want me. "I'll be back before the storms come... before the Solstice..." Want to be inside you when the Pupil keens... feel it roll through us… become part of it… unbreakable…

"Din..." she whimpered, her voice barely anything and failing to form another word. But she'd given him all he ever needed in merely whispering his name. When she felt this thought from his heart, her feelings turned softer, and she raised her head to look into his eyes. She took him by the hair to drag him back up her body until she had his shoulders wrapped in her arms and her lips buried under his jaw. She pushed her love deep into his heart, and pulled his lips to hers to kiss him with equal parts silk and zillo hide. Will want you all day... will feel you all day... know what you'll do... let your fire settle inside me... tease me with it...

You'll do the same to me... counting on it... He kissed her tenderly and gave her a little smile that belied all the ways he'd ravaged her, then levered himself upright and out of bed. Aldor rolled to her side to reach for him like she needed another hit before he left for the hunt. She ran her hand across his stomach and over his hip as her thumb barely grazed along the crease of his thigh, and Din felt how much she loved the sight of him naked as her touch shook him to the core.

To tide himself over, he knelt to take her hand in his, and pressed it to his face as he closed his eyes. He turned his nose into her palm and nuzzled the delicate flesh, then dropped a reverent kiss to it while he kept his eyes on hers. "Later, my Lady," he whispered, then set her hand free to start getting dressed.

It settled in like a fever the moment he left her naked and hungry in their bed. His mind seized on her and stayed there because every insistent rumble from the Pupil felt like a ripple of her finest fabric. Her zillo hide and steam. All he could think about was how amazing her pussy tasted. How it would feel to be inside her right now. He couldn't stop these thoughts, and couldn't stop the Force in him from insinuating his fiery bands into her womb and around her delicate limbs. Caressing her breasts and licking her clit. But she had her way with him too. Since he stepped out the door this morning, he'd been subjected to seductive caresses of silk all along his shaft and up his back and across his chest, laving his balls and seeping through his skin. It was almost too easy with the Eye in a constant state of vibration. Every temptation permeated the very planet they walked on, and as the morning advanced, Din felt more and more like a rutting buck ready to charge at anything that got between him and his mate.

He knew he was running out of time as ominous clouds gathered overhead, but he was determined to see the hunt through. He wouldn't want to leave the YT for at least a day or two, and had to make sure they were supplied. But he was restless and jumpy. Lit up like Boonta Eve and rumbling with every step through the forest. At this point, he couldn't tell if the Eye was affecting him or vice versa. Either way, loud cracks echoed for hundreds of miles across the Eye from the restless Pupil, and the sky was on fire in a rage of deep reds and bright indigo. The Solstice would come within a few hours. He felt it in his marrow. The continent was throbbing as intensely as he was, and he needed to be inside her as soon as fucking possible. He'd purposefully drawn this out, but now he wondered how wise it had been as the taste of her continued to flood his tongue, and a whisp of silken ribbons teased his balls and licked between his thighs at the same time a deep rumble shook the ground.

Where are you, my Love?

Other side of the spring. Not far. Can't be far. Not right now. The cervids are mostly inland. Tracking one though… think I'm close…

I hope so, my Love. Every time the ground trembles I feel you.

And I you, my Lady.

Be careful, my Mandalorian.

See you soon.

But he was shamefully slow in taking down the buck he'd tracked. His mind was overtaken with images and scenes he'd been conjuring all day. Kept catching hints of her flavor in his mouth and whiffs of her scent on the air that made his cock jump. By the time he finally spotted the buck in a clearing, the insistent organ had taken over his entire body. He missed his first two shots and scared the bastard off. It didn't go far, but Din had enough, and finally lost his patience. Without even thinking about it, he just snapped the beast's neck with the Force after he failed for the third time to hit his mark with the cycler. He growled derisively at himself. It didn't feel right to kill like that, but he was slightly encouraged by the idea that he could do anything with the Force if he was deep enough in rut.

It was just past solar noon by the time he had his kill on the sledge and finally started back. He wanted to bolt back as fast as he could so he could bury himself in everything his mind had conjured through this long and taxing morning, but he meant to conserve his energy. He knew the moment he laid his eyes on her and caught a whiff of her scent, there'd be no stopping him. With this thought, the Eye rumbled low and long and shook the ground so hard, he struggled to maintain his footing.

Din... know you felt that…felt like you… please, my Love… hurry home to me…

Don't make me run, my Lady... want to take my time with you… stay in bed until neither of us can walk straight... tell me… is he…

Still at meditation. Came out long enough for lunch. Then went back… told me he'd see us after dark… after the Solstice begins…

Almost there, my Lady.

Din quickened his pace, done now with his experiments. He could already feel her. Not just her Force, but her body. Could feel it opening. Felt her flesh in his hands and against him, begging him not to leave her empty.

Her Mandalorian had never been more powerful. He settled inside her from the moment he left and stayed there all morning, throbbing between her legs while the Eye shuddered underfoot. It'd become more intense as the morning wore on at an agonizingly slow rate. By now, she was practically cumming every time the ground vibrated. She sensed him drawing closer. Could almost feel the hard flesh of his beautiful cock splitting her open.

Twice already, she'd come very near relieving some of the pressure on her own, but she felt Din's intentions this morning when he charged her to wait. She wanted to wait for him. She was sure she would crumble the moment she felt his hands on her, but she wanted to. She was dripping for him, barely able to sit still for more than half a minute as she tried to busy herself with her usual small tasks. But the only thing she could think about was Din. The beautiful patch of scruff she loved to bury her lips in. The deep, whispering sigh that would float between his lips and across her flesh. The thick cock inside her as they flew through the Force together. She wanted to taste the salt on his skin. Smell the forest on him and lick it off his chest. She had grown almost angry with waiting, even though she knew he was seconds away.

She swelled with a powerful wave of gilded dark matter tendrils and sat on the edge of their bed to watch the hatch as her fingers absently stroked the damp fabric that covered her aching mound. She felt him before she heard him stomping up the ramp and through the door. He shrugged out of his coat the second the hatch closed behind him, and didn't stop as he tossed his holster on the table, and barely stumbled when he yanked off his boots and shed his tunic, advancing on her as she opened her legs wider to welcome her lover home.

By the time he stood before her, he was gloriously naked, towering above her as he roughly tossed her legs up onto the bunk. He knelt over her in the bed and methodically stripped her bare as a matter of fact, focused on getting her naked as quickly and efficiently as possible as his breath kicked up into a series of soft huffs. Mission accomplished, he took a moment to rake his eyes over her, and sucked in a breath as if she'd saved his life. His shattered eyes filled with images of her screaming his name, fucked into the dirt and ecstatic about it. It was clear he was in no mood to test himself now.

He dropped to one elbow over her and looked down to watch as he savagely dragged two fingers over her clit and shoved them deep into her pussy as she bit her lip and clung to his back. "Still wet," he rasped. "Force fucking you all day..." He pumped his fingers hard a few times, then quickly withdrew as he crawled down her body and between her legs. He licked deep into her, feasting on her greedily as she held on to his hair, coming nearer the edge of oblivion with every hard stroke of his tongue through her pussy. That's right, my Lady… fucking starving… tasted you all day. Want you to take every last fucking inch of me now. Let the Solstice break while we do.

Hard heat hammered into her before she could open her eyes, and it didn't stop. He was so hard and big and hot… so thick as he drew back, then tore her in half with another hard thrust and kept going, hitting her so hard and so deep with every powerful stroke, she felt it in her breasts. She begged him to take one into his mouth just as he bowed his head to oblige her. From there, she didn't know anything. Nothing except a series of oblivions wrapped in ecstasy until she was reduced to a bundle of static stuck in hyperspace, in too great a euphoria to care if she crashed into a supernova. Fuck, she wanted to. Just to feel what it was like... destruction... creation... life.

"Aldor," his voice was deep and quiet, strained and breathy. It rumbled through his chest and shook into her, rippling downward and upward at once in tendrils of molten gold that licked at her breasts and clit as a soft cry burst from her mouth.

"Ahhh!"

She was caught on a dense wind of gilded dark matter, filled with this gorgeous friction of his beautiful cock pumping purposefully into her. His heart racing, his Spirit chaotic, his soul latching on to her as he screwed up his eyes and Aldor could no longer hang on. She was gone again, pouring over him as he collected her ass in his palm, and drove himself harder, into a place so deep she barely knew it was there. Then nothing and everything. His scent and his flesh. His soul and his voice. Stars. Ribbons. Dark matter… "Everything."

Something in her mindless whisper rendered him helpless, and his chest huffed with whispered oaths. He trembled through every fervid thrust that shook her womb to its depths, and she felt her lover falling beautifully apart. "Nnggh…" The grunt disintegrated in his throat, and a wanton whimper tumbled over his lips as he gathered her into his arms, levering himself up, rocking into her in quick bursts, decimating that gorgeous bundle of nerves he loved to exploit. "Know you want to cum again," he heaved. "Ungh! Feel it… feels so fucking good... gonna cum with you... so close..."

"Din," she whimpered, her breath barely catching in her lungs. "Can see... see the end... beginning... all of it... can see us… everywhere…"

A sob broke from both their throats when they went flying over the galaxy, wrapped around each other and listening in on the planets that flew past. Then they landed together, their bodies utterly bound as Din moaned and a precious wave filled every emptiness inside her. The beautiful caress took her around the Universe until they collapsed as one body, vibrating in time with the tremors from the Eye.

He tightened his grip on her, and scooped her backside up into his hand to anchor himself between her legs, and Aldor could only sigh as her lover's breath slowed, and she felt his voice rising from the depths of his lungs. "Never felt that way before... so fucking... primal... I'm sorry if I... if it was... but fuck that was good... felt so fucking good. Glad I made myself wait… even though… couldn't get a buck with the fucking cycler. Had to snap its neck with the Force. Didn't like it, but... couldn't aim... just felt the... the rumble. Had to have you. No matter what. Would've bombed anything out to get to you. Bury myself. Watch you... watch your face when you cum... thought about it all day... just... just need... to be here... inside you... both of us... everywhere."

Aldor rarely heard this many words come so forcefully at once from her lover's lips, and she cherished their flavor as she trailed her tongue through the broad divot in his bottom lip. He sighed through it and gripped her hair in his fingers, licking into her mouth like she was the most delicious meal he'd ever tasted, savoring every stroke of her tongue against his.

"You are, my Lady," he whispered, coming up for air and nuzzling under her ear. "Fucking delicious. Your mouth. Your pussy. Your skin. Love how you taste. Had to make you cum this morning... just had to watch it... had to taste it. Wanted you like I've never wanted anything. But needed to wait. Kept me up all day... why I couldn't aim... wanted to test myself... see how far... how far the Eye could push me... whether I should let it..."

"What was your conclusion, my Love?" She whispered the question into the dip under his jaw, and nuzzled into his stubble while he shuddered and hugged her tighter. "I'd say you did well on your test either way."

Din huffed a short chuckle. "I think I did, my Lady. If I'd let it push me like I was tempted, I would've fucked you all day. Wouldn't have left the bed. By tomorrow morning, you'd've been too sore and swollen to even think about fucking me for a full cycle. I couldn't have that, my Lady. I wouldn't like it at all. So I was damn sure I did my part to keep that from happening."

Aldor laughed into his neck and she felt him smile through his quiet chuckles. "You're very wise, my Mandalorian. So thoughtful of your lover. Because she wouldn't have liked it either."

The nothing smile that meant everything gradually settled over his lips as he brushed his nose slowly and sweetly across hers, taking a moment to kiss each cheek when his lips came near them. "Do you... do you think Grogu will..."

"I think he'll meditate through most of the Solstice. Of course we'll have to provide him with food when he gets hungry enough to come out of it. After he eats, he'll say something profound and sweet. You'll get a nose bump and I'll get a kiss on the cheek, then he'll go back to his room."

Din laughed at this as his lips drew into a smile wide enough to show his teeth. He kissed her deeply a few times, then sighed as he pressed his forehead to hers. "I don't want to leave you, my Lady." His whisper warmed her skin between delicate kisses and little tickles from his mustache, and she curled herself entirely around him, wanting nothing more than to stay exactly as they were. He took her mouth in another warm, deep kiss, then trailed his thumb lovingly down the bridge of her nose and across her lips as his eyes followed the shape of her face. "Want to stay here with you... make love to you... fuck you... whatever you want... anything, my Lady..."

"The Solstice begins," she whispered, and buried her face in his chest to inhale his provocative spice, and huddled in closer, letting him engulf her in his broad body. She loved how small she felt. How delicate. Priceless and protected. For the first time in a long time, she didn't worry about anything. Anything at all. This warmth and this scent and these hands kept her safe. Kept the darkness away while she relaxed in golden blankets. "My Mandalorian has kept the light on inside me," she whispered dreamily. "The darkness is terrified of you, my Love. So strong… my lover… so strong and tender…"

"My strength is nothing to yours, my Lady," he murmured into her hair. "I know so little of your past, but I sense all these terrible memories that made you strong. I know you'll tell me when you can. And… I hope you'll let me help you… when you think of things you don't want to remember. I'd do anything to repay all you do for me. Do anything to help you. To protect you. Because… every day, my Lady… it gets harder to imagine being without you. I'd be lost, Aldor. More lost than I was when I met you."

"You shouldn't think of such things," Aldor softly warned. "You know, my Love… darkness and death will never have a hold on me to match yours. Whoever goes first, we'll never be parted."

"I believe that, my Lady. Truly I do. I feel it. And I've listened to all you've told me, but my heart is... stubborn. I'm always afraid when I'm happy. Always… waiting for something to try and take it from me." He paused to look pointedly into her eyes, and a flash of the vision that nearly drove him mad shot through both their minds. "I still have those nightmares, Aldor. Blue silk and blood. Sometimes. Not like before, but it still terrifies me. I would be strong for our son... and I would live my life to honor you... but my heart... it wouldn't survive, my Lady." He briefly looked down from her eyes, and sighed deeply as he shook his head. "So hard to admit that, but it's the truth, Aldor. Whatever future we follow, I'll always hope we die together in it. I want my heart with me when I become part of the Force."

"So do I, my Love," Aldor whispered. "I fear many of the same things. Without you... I wouldn't be... me... anymore. I was almost gone before you came, Din. Weak and… drifting… listless. It was so hard to keep going… before you and Grogu came… so glad... so glad I kept my strength long enough. Now I think… maybe my Spirit could survive anything… knowing we are bound from the beginning to the end."

Din felt a chill crawling into her faltering flames through her memories, and took her into an urgent embrace, encasing her in a renewed bubble of golden magma to keep the darkness at bay. Swear it won't have you, Aldor... will kill anything that tries to harm you… or die trying… will haunt you if I go first... will stay with you until everything ends... protecting you… for as long as you need me...

Will always need you, Din... always have... somewhere in the Force we came together and we stayed together... you have always been my Love.

Always been my Lady... always will be.

"Nothing will take it, my Mandalorian... nothing..."

Her voice stopped in her throat as he plunged back into her, still filled with his seed and hungry for more of it. He wanted to oblige her. To stay here until the Pupil finally had enough, and filled the sky with its passion. Wanted to watch her trip through Galaxies and take him with her. To become one. Irrevocably. Until the end of everything.

Take me wherever you want to go, my Lady... doesn't matter... just take me with you... all I want... all I need...

My Mandalorian... need you to come with me... need your wisdom... strength... can't leave you behind... give me energy... give me light... "Ahh... ahhh!"

"Fuck, Aldor," he growled, feeling the rut rise up again as her fragrance burst from her skin like a damp flower. So much gorgeous wet softness wrapped him in pleasure, something in him commanded him to propagate his useless seed. Make her scream his name and take her body and soul. Let her take him. Let her have everything he could offer. Didn't matter. As long as you keep making that sound. "That sound," he groaned, unable to stop himself as he pounded deep into the hot honey, watching her face disintegrate into silent screams and stolen breaths, licking her lips and bucking against him, letting him feel how much she loved it. A precious pulse that grew harder and more insistent with every swing of his hips into hers.

"Aaahhhh!"

"Shit!" He was dangerously close as her beautiful little cry sent him into a frenzy of feelings and flesh. But he wanted to make this last. Was determined to make her cum as many times as he could before he couldn't take anymore. A challenge and a rite. A symbol of how much he loved her. The things he would do for her pleasure. "Fucking anything," he murmured, and pressed his hand between her beautiful pale breasts to push a gentling vibration into her lungs and blood, bringing her down with a caress of warm blankets through her nervous system. Barely a breath whispered through her trembling lips, and at last he was able to catch her eyes and begged her to kiss him.

She pulled him down hard to devour him, making his hair stand up on the back of his neck as his cock throbbed desperately inside her. The drenched heat tightened insistently around the entire length of him as she rocked her hips against his, and the shift nearly sent him straight over the edge. "Aldor..." he growled. "Gonna make me cum... don't want to yet... want to watch you... want..."

He couldn't finish his thought. There was no stopping her now. No stopping him as he drew back slowly, moaning at the feel of his cock sliding through so much delicious honey, loving the slick sound as he drove himself immediately back into the very core of her. "Ahhh!" She yanked him down to her breast by his hair, forcing her nipple into his mouth as she bucked in wild strokes, strangling him in her blessedly tight pussy as he clawed the bedclothes under his fingers, on the razor's edge as pleasure morphed briefly into pain, and he was almost positive he blacked out for an instant. Otherwise he never could have held on as she jerked him up through a wormhole made of silk and steam that landed them on another planet. A different time, but the same feelings. "Din!" Her voice brought him back as a wave of her crashed over him, and a desperate moan escaped his lips as he fought every cell in his body to keep himself from following after her. He anchored himself deep against the tremendous flood of Aldor that caressed every fiber of his being as it poured out of her. "Ahhhhhh!"

Din screwed his eyes up against the ebb tide as it retreated in a soft brush of silk he felt fucking everywhere, and wrapped his arms tight around her, determined to have his way. Determined to make this last. Again he filled her blood with calming vibrations, kissing her in tender nips along her collar bones and neck. He gradually slowed his rhythm, and soon he was utterly in control of her as she purred and caressed his shoulders and back, her cool little hands never stopping their endless exploration of his feverish flesh.

He wanted to worship this body he was buried in. Wanted to bless it for how fucking good it felt. So he drew her in closer, rocking his hips in deeper, longer strides, stroking slowly into her depths to let all that slick softness slide around him, caressing him into oblivion as he absently nipped at her chin, barely aware of anything but how incredible her pussy felt right now. How fucking much he wanted to cum in it. How tight and wet and deep she was. Lost in this bliss, he could no longer brace himself against the pull as the event horizon loomed ahead. He was in a euphoria so intense it was almost painful as every soft valley and ridge of her brought his throbbing cock nearer the point of agony. But it felt fucking amazing. Light and life and sparks and fire lit up every electron in his body. An intense rush he wanted more and more of as he felt her entire being drawing tighter around his, and he sensed how deeply she felt it in her womb. A rumble from the springs in a chaos of pleasure and pain so deep inside her he couldn't see it, ready to seep through the cracks to create life.

Before he could brace himself, her body seized and shook in an enormous wave of steam and silk. "Ahhhhghhh... ah... ahhhh!"

A string of Mando'a curses ripped through his throat at the piercing pleasure of that fucking sound as he pushed himself as deep as he could go, determined to stay anchored where he was to let the tempest consume him. But a bolt of cool blue lightning ripped through his veins, and instinct drove him into a frenzy of deep, hard thrusts, until he'd pounded another orgasm out of her. He was barely able to stop himself until he realized her shoulders and head had fallen over the edge of the bed.

Fuck, how beautiful. She opened her eyes through a haze of rapture, heaving and murmuring as this thought popped out of him. He couldn't look away from them, broken and beautiful and so deeply in love with the man she saw, he felt her love everywhere. All around and through him as he slowed his pace again, watching the scene unfold. Completely entranced and half dreaming as his lover closed her eyes and poured over the side of the bunk, stretched in an elegant curve draped toward the floor, begging him to lick her nipples and fuck her harder.

Lick them raw… fuck me into the bunk like you wanted this morning… take all of me now my Love… feel the Eye… feel you…

Look at you, Aldor... look at you... so fucking beautiful... everywhere through me… through the Force... everyone in the galaxy will feel you rushing by them... fierce and hungry and so fucking beautiful, my Lady...

... attack me like a loth-wolf and take me... pour into me everything you are... pound me out of my body and cum with me... over the Universe... hungry... fierce…

Her thoughts fell apart as Din gave her everything she asked for, so close to disintegration, he didn't think either of them would survive the cataclysm. She embraced and penetrated him with fire and life as the Eye shook so deep in its core it couldn't take anymore, and everything inside them collapsed as they followed a massive roll of thunder through death and rebirth, and all of him poured into her as she arced and bucked and took hold of his arms to keep herself steady, accepting everything he gave her as ecstasy ripped them apart.

When Din came back together and opened his eyes, he saw his lover limp and heaving, clutching his arms as she went limp over the edge of the bed. For a moment, he saw her from outside and inside himself simultaneously, overtaken by the beauty of this woman he was tied to. How could she possibly be real? Maybe he was about to die and this was the last dream of his life. Maybe he'd just been born and she was his first glimpse of hope. But he remembered everything again when her drenched, swollen pussy fluttered sweetly around him, and he groaned at the bittersweet feel of his softening cock saturated in seed and honey.

She was limp and weightless in his arms as he gently drew her shoulders and head back onto the bunk, and gathered her under him as he anchored himself between her legs. He settled carefully on top of her, bearing his weight on one elbow. She seemed more delicate somehow. More precious. He wanted to wrap her in all his golden blankets and keep her for himself. Keep her safe and warm and happy. Then, looking down at her sweet face so satisfied and content, he saw she was already all of the above. Safe under his protection, and warm and happy in his arms. Feeling all this contentment he'd created, Din's heart overwhelmed him, and he dropped his forehead to hers, so intensely in love with her right now, he was sure everyone in the Universe felt his heart rumble.

She absorbed all he gave her, and her arms slowly found strength enough to ease around him and pull him closer. Solstice, my Love... felt it in me… from you… so powerful… strong like my lover…

Think we made it happen, Aldor... never realized… never knew… it could feel like that… "Like we were... at every point in time... like we were..."

"Creating life," she sighed, half drunk as she wrapped her legs around him, levering her hips into his to keep him locked inside her.

Din murmured incomprehensively when a gentle sting pierced his heart at her choice of words. He couldn't keep it from her any longer, because he felt how much she loved his seed inside her. Even though he was pretty sure she already knew, he didn't want to deceive her. "Can't… I can't give you more than… the feeling, my Lady… I'm not able… to… to father children. Never bothered me before I met you."

"Don't worry, my Love," she said with a strained smile. "I knew. So don't apologize. You shouldn't feel guilty because you never deceived me."

Din eased his hands and arms under her, and took her with him as he fell to his side, holding on to the flesh of her backside to keep himself nestled between her legs. "I guess you're right, but… I should have told you outright."

"So should I," she said. "I never told you either, but I think you know. It's not just you who isn't able. But it's just as well, my Love. We're both too old and weary to raise more than one magical child. I think what we create instead will be as precious."

Din squeezed his eyes shut as he hugged her tighter, and shook his head in amazement at his lover. "I wish I knew the words for how I feel when you say things like that," he murmured. He paused to give her a pious kiss, trying to soothe the crack in his voice. "The way you soften things. Makes it less painful. I see why it's for the best that we can't… but I would love to bring another child into our family… one we made together… but it wasn't meant to be. I can accept that so long as I have you and Grogu… so long as we can lay here together during the Solstice… and you don't mind listening to me ramble…"

Aldor smiled against his chest and rolled her face into his throat, drawing tiny shocks from his skin everywhere her lips touched. "I love to listen to you ramble, my Love. It's such a rare thing, I consider it precious."

"You wouldn't like it all the time, would you?"

"I wouldn't," Aldor laughed.

"You see, my Lady, I know you as well as you know me."

Aldor smiled and lifted her eyes up to his, somewhere in the nucleus of the cell they'd created of themselves. She kissed him softly, and he bowed his head to touch his forehead to hers, sighing in the sunshine of her smile. "You're absolutely right, my Love," she said quietly. "You know me in ways no one has known me. It's as true of my mind and heart as it is of my body. As you've said, we recognize our own."

"But I'll never admit either of us is crazy," he whispered, closing his eyes in this wonderous haze of sensual domesticity, smiling under his lover's ear while he felt her smiling back at him. Felt her love for him so far beyond words, it had been reduced to a stream of plasma that constantly fed his heart. It was astonishing to feel how much of it she poured into him. How much she showed him. Amazing that another living thing could love him like this. He still struggled to believe it was real. But there was no doubt as she delicately dragged her lips across his forehead and squeezed him tighter in her arms. Every cell of his being knew she loved him when she held him like this. Every atom knew he loved her.

They remained wrapped together for at least an hour after the Solstice began, until the one being in the universe that could rouse them from it let it be known that he was coming out of meditation and ready for dinner. Aldor squirmed in Din's arms, ready to jump into action for her loved ones, but he held her back, and took one more deep kiss. "Just… want you to know, my Lady… how honored I am to call you Grogu's mother. Not sure you realize how much it means to both of us. You're the soul of our Clan, my Lady… I want you to know that… always know it."

Aldor smiled sweetly, and blessed him with a tender kiss. "I'm just happy to have a Clan to take care of," she answered quietly, and dropped her eyes to his chest, bashfully burrowing into the bend of his shoulder. "The two of you take care of me too, you know. You and our son have given me more reasons than I ever thought I'd have. But… thank you… for telling me so. I always feel it, my Love, but it is nice to hear it now and then."

"I hope I'll always remember to say these things, my Lady. Our way of talking makes it easy to forget that words can be valuable. Even though you know my feelings, there are times when I need to tell you… that I love you. I respect you. I am grateful for you."

"Sweet Mandalorian," she whispered, and kissed him as she drew him into a tight hug. "It's enough to hear such words from you once, my Love, but I think you say them more often than you realize. And I love you for that. For so many things, Din. The things you do for our family… you are the pillar we cling to. You are the heart of our Clan, my Love. And I swear to every god that's ever been, nothing will take it from us."

Before he could respond, Din was covered in silk and steam, embraced and cradled against her in a thousand different ways while she kissed him again, deeply and slowly as she wrapped her arms and legs around him. So soft and fluid. Fragrant and luscious. He was prepared to roll her to her back and take her again while the Eye purred in a low, constant rumble. The fire was building again. He could smell it in his lover's hair. Taste it on her nipple as he softly licked across her breast. Do we have time? Want you again… want to make it last… tell each other things we already know…

"Later, my Love," she whispered on a soft shiver, teasing him with the echo of his own words from this morning. "Later… you can take me however you want me… tell me anything you choose." She kissed him one more time, and smiled regretfully as she disengaged herself from his arms, and slid out of bed to get dressed in her tunic and trousers.

"You're trying to tempt me with your farm girl clothes, my Lady," he murmured, smiling drunkenly at his lover as he lingered in bed. "Getting back at me for this morning."

"You've given me no choice, my Love," she teased. "You ripped my bottoms yesterday and kept me too distracted to mend them today."

Din chuckled and basked in pride at the memory. "Oh yeah… sorry, my Lady…"

"But that shit-eating grin suggests you aren't sorry at all, my Mandalorian."

"Not at all."

She bent down and kissed the smile that showed his teeth, then bounded from the bunk to the kitchen to start warming some leftover stew. Din had just gotten his tunic over his head when Grogu hopped through the cockpit door and jumped into Aldor's arms to give her a kiss on the cheek. "Why hello, my dear One," she exclaimed brightly. "It seems you've been having some nice visions."

Grogu nodded enthusiastically. "Feel good. Hungry. Want to see family. Then meditate more. If okay…"

"You do what you need to, Buddy," Din encouraged, but rethought it and added, "Within reason."

Grogu cackled and bolted into Din's arms, and gave his nose a deep rub before he flung his little arms around his father's neck. "Promise."

Din gave his boy an affectionate bounce and pressed a quick kiss to his forehead. "Can't believe how much you've grown, Son," he commented. "All that meditation must be good for you."

Grogu nodded and grinned. "Feel good. Always see family in visions… different ways, but always family there. Glad to see now. Out loud."

Din chuckled and set Grogu down in his chair before he took up his own. "Out Loud," he repeated. "I guess sometimes you need to see things out loud, don't you, Kid?"

"See many things not out loud, though," Grogu mused. "Not all things should be."

Din nodded. "I think you're probably right."

"Dark and light always. Remember lessons though. Learn to understand."

Din huffed in response. "Me too, Kid. Me too."

After dinner, Clan Djarin spent some time discussing their next lessons. To start after the Solstice, of course. Grogu was excited to see how his father would fare in a sparring match against A-wee-pa come spring, and hoped he'd be able to conquer the Maze by then. When Aldor assured him he was almost ready to run it with his training staff, he seemed satisfied. Not long afterward, his ears started to droop, and a huge yawn momentarily overtook him. "Sleep a while," he said. "Meditate more… Solstice long day… lots to see… important things for family." With that, he bestowed his ritual nose bump and kiss on the cheek, then trotted back to his room, already deep in thought.

Aldor tried to wait longer, but it wasn't but a few minutes after Grogu closed his door that she'd had all she could take, and rushed at her lover like her life depended on it. All through dinner, his golden bands had infused every inch of her, inside and out. They'd mercilessly licked her nipples and caressed her clit for more than an hour now, and she was driven into a primal sort of madness that had her crushing her lips to his as she sank into his lap, levering herself hard against the erection already stirring under the fly of his trousers.

Din knew what he'd done, and she sensed a swell of pride as he palmed her breasts through her tunic and rolled his hips beneath her to make sure she felt how hard he was. To wipe that gorgeous grin off his face, she dropped to her knees on the floor in front of him, yanked his legs apart, and tore through his trousers to wrap her mouth around the object of her obsession as a massive breath raked through his lungs.

Fuck, he tasted amazing. Salty and metallic, like the very blood in his veins as she licked around the hard, hot curve with her tongue, gently sucking as she let him slide slowly out of her mouth, and took him in hand to look up at his face. His chest was heaving and his jaw set hard as his eyes lit up in a rage of magma and fire, staring down at her like she'd taken his very soul while she squeezed and stroked him. She kept her eyes locked on his while she licked a thick vein that ran the length of him, and took him fully into her mouth again as his fingers clutched her hair, keeping her where she was as she licked and sucked and pulled until her tongue found a comfortable spot in the deep dip just under the head.

"Ummnngh…" Din's groan was restless and petulant, and he struggled to stay still as she mercilessly ground her tongue into the delicious spot of flesh, sending him higher every second. "Aldorrr…" he growled, panting while his head dropped backward, looking skyward as he pulsed and grew harder and thicker with every insistent press of her tongue. "Fuck, Aldor," he spat. "Don't make me… don't make me…" Her Mandalorian nearly broke as he looked back down to watch her swallow him whole. "No," he growled, and grabbed her roughly by the hair to pull himself out of her mouth and bring her back into his lap. He devoured her in a wet, sloppy kiss, partaking of his own flavor as he licked deep into the expanse and pulled her hips into his, grinding his thick erection into the damp inseam of her trousers. His eyes were engulfed in flame when he pulled her lips roughly from his, fingers still clutched in her hair as his chest heaved and shook, stroking her clit with his hard length through fabric soaked through to her skin. "Sopping fucking wet and you were gonna make me cum in your mouth?" he murmured. "No, my Lady… can't have that… not right now."

He pulled her into him again, claiming her with a possessive kiss as he wrapped his arms tight around her, stood with her in his arms, and had her on her back in their bunk in two great strides, already pulling at her tunic, trying to get at her bare breasts like the entire Universe would implode if he didn't. She heard a deep rip, then all she knew was his mouth hot and damp over her breast, his hand yanking down her trousers without unfastening them, clawing and ripping at all her clothes to get her naked while she shamelessly tore into him like a present, until at last they came together in a rage of fire and dark matter. Her wet body seized around every inch of him, stretched to the limit as his thick flesh ripped her open. Then the ground began to shake again, and the tremors rolled into their bodies until she thought they would break apart.

She didn't know how much later it was when she regained her senses. For most of the night, they'd remained in a tangle of fucking while the Eye rumbled beneath them. Din's breath dragged through his lungs as she savored the feel of it, hot across her breasts as he lay on top of her with his head tucked under her chin. She ran her fingers through the heavy waves of his hair, damp with sweat and in complete disarray. Both of them were covered in a sheen of perspiration and sex, still panting after the most recent release. She was full of cum, and he was still sunk inside her, barely flaccid in the aftermath.

"Where have we been, my Lady," he asked in a rough, quiet voice. He nuzzled between her breasts, and turned his head to curl a quick lick around her nipple. "Mmmm," he murmured and took her breast in his mouth as she sighed and let her head drop back into the pillow. She clutched his hair, bathing in the feel of his tongue slicking across her over-sensitized flesh. Every shift of him was a riot of pleasure, and she still ached for more even as he withdrew himself from between her legs, and the remnants of his last purge trickled out of her. He drew his tongue slowly back over her nipple, and up her throat and to her chin, then took her in a deep, messy kiss.

He smiled down into her eyes and released a quiet huff before he dropped to his side and took her into his arms. "That's where we've been," he murmured in response to his own question as he cradled her tight against him. "Fucking each other senseless," he whispered. "Know I just came, but already want more. Don't know how that's even possible right now, but already feel… mmm… feel that pull… like a buck in rut. Like earlier… when was it, my Lady? Yesterday? Earlier today? I don't even know."

"Haven't the foggiest," she whispered, unable to think coherently as his lips brushed softly across her forehead. Even this gentle gesture created a rumble in her womb, but she was determined to remain semi-sensible, and managed to open her eyes. She turned in his arms to look out the window, and he pulled her possessively back against him as soon as she settled. He opened his mouth over her shoulder to let his teeth graze across the trembling flesh, and she gulped back a sigh. She drew from every working cell left in her brain to focus on the light outside while he licked behind her ear, but it became increasingly difficult to make sense of the images before her as he took his time to nuzzle into every dip of her neck and shoulders in between murmurs into her hair.

"Still dark," he whispered into the nape of her neck, stirring the little hairs there as his commentary helped her mind comprehend what her eyes saw. "Pupil still lighting up the sky… see the colors…" He paused to roll his face into the curve from her shoulder to her neck and pressed a firm kiss under her ear. Her body instantly pulsed and swelled to feel it, and it was all she could do not to whimper.

His golden bands had never left her. Not since this morning. All this time as his body tore hers open to the Galaxy, his Force kept her open to everything. Even now she felt it purring between her legs, building up from her depths in a beautiful cyclical throb that matched the Eye's heartbeat. Matched hers. His. Theirs. "Start to see things in these moments," he whispered. She bit her lip as his fingertip barely ghosted over her clit. "Start to see glimpses of the future."

"What do you see, my Love?" she breathed.

He gently dipped his fingertip through her slippery seam, and it hungrily gulped him in as Aldor held her whimpers inside, pushing them back down the trail of molten gold to the point of contact, where his finger softly stroked her, seeming hesitant to plunge deeper. "I see you in visions flashing through my mind," he whispered into her ear. "Visions across the Galaxy, my Lady." He paused to suckle her earlobe as he shifted and reached between them to take his erection in his hand, and positioned himself snug against her clit, not in the mood to tease as he guided himself slowly home. His breath stuttered in her hair as she lost her place in time and space, gulping in air as a thick column of hot molten gold filled her pleasure, stretching her to the limit. Then she saw what he wanted to tell her as everything he was spread through her blood like an inoculation. She saw his vision and felt his certainty in it. Experienced it from inside her lover's mind and heart as he gently stroked into her, keeping them bound in a haze of vision and ecstasy.

She saw a lane flanked by faces. Faces nodding respectfully at her in front of small freighters and transports that were positioned at spacious intervals leading up to the Maze. Shops and traders. More than a hundred sets of eyes all looking to Clan Djarin for protection and leadership.

You thought all this power was mine… no, my Lady… us… what we are together… can't do any of it without you… need you… see orphans… lovers… like us… three suns… your face and Grogu's. "I see these things, Aldor… and I know you see them too."

As her lover's voice settled seductively in her ears, she began to see three glowing points imbedded in the fabric of spacetime. However many years from now or however many years ago, it didn't matter. They were all there, holding this thing together. She didn't know what to call it. It didn't matter. They were all that mattered now. Her lover and her son. The extended family she saw smiling through her visions. This feeling of completion. Balance.

"Trinary… system…" she whispered, her womb filling with fire as Din's gentle thrusts grew more insistent. Then her breath was suddenly rasping through her lungs in desperate bursts as Din shifted to his knees and threw her leg over his shoulder, driving hard and heavy into her as his eyes evaporated into billowing columns of pyroclastic flow, watching his cock disappear into her body with every hard thrust, starving again and licking his lips. She felt him growing thicker. Felt him coiling up tighter with every hit that had her flying with the springs through the Pupil of the Eye. "That's it, Aldor," he groaned. "Take me with you… bring me along…"

"Ahhhh…" She couldn't hold it in anymore, and she knew it would be the thing that would break him, so she levered her hips hard, practically sobbing as every thick inch of him forcefully impaled her and he lost all control. Then he was everywhere at once, surrounding her in dense muscle and fragrant flesh. He clamped her in his arms, and collected her underneath him, pumping hard and fast into her disintegrating body until she really thought he'd tear her in half, begging for it as every nerve and vessel ballooned up until the pressure became too much, and both of them were overtaken and exploded in every direction across the Galaxy. They came back together as the first wave of his seed poured into her. She levered her hips hard against his, greedy for it as a deep moan creaked out of his throat and another thick burst of him left him empty, and she took every last drop like a gift from the Force.

Din was groggy and barely in his own head as he sat back on his heels between her legs. He stared down at his Lady spread out before him. Everything between her thighs was soaked and slick, and so was he. Her breasts heaved as one hand rested limp on her belly, and the other lay tossed over her head across the pillows. She was still wide open to him as she purred like a sleepy loth-kitten, drinking him in with an expression of heat and adoration. He gently nudged her open with his thumb to watch his seed slide out of her, listening to her sigh as he tenderly stroked her clit. His cock jumped at this strangely beautiful thing. His lover's body so casually exposed. The sweet, wet lips that pulsed and trembled under his thumb as his essence filled her with pleasure and love. It was all he hoped she would feel. This contentment. This sensual joy. If they couldn't have a child of their own, they could at least have this. The thrill of creating a life if not the creation itself, rumbling through two naked human bodies full of blood and fire.

He looked into her eyes to see desire still burning there. Wanting more of him. A soft murmur pushed through her pale crimson lips as he stroked her more lightly, wanting to bring her down gradually while he thought about taking her up again. Have to take a minute, my Lady. Let it sink in. How good this feels. Watching my cum leak out of you. Don't know why I love it so much… just love to watch… see the pleasure on your face.

She took a deep breath and reached for him, barely able to brush her fingertips against his chest and belly as a satisfied smile slowly spread across her beautiful mouth. Feels like peace… like completion… primal probably… feels incredible… your seed… inside me…

Comfortable like this, my Lady… sitting between your legs and watching you smile like an empress while we feel all these things… listen to your thoughts while I play with your clit… everything about you… so fucking fine and tough… taking my cock all night and still wanting more… loving how my cum feels inside you… sharing my visions… excited…

Excited by my lover… his strength and his tenderness… so raw and so much yourself, my Mandalorian… most beautiful man I've ever seen, making me feel things I've never felt… oh Din… already swelling again to think of it… can't pull away… don't stop what you're doing… playing with my clit… watching… feels so good…

Nothing will take it from us.

Nothing.

"But I sense many things, my Lady," he murmured a little ruefully. "Changes."

"Yes, my Love… inevitable, I'm afraid… but also… our purpose."

Din nodded, dropping his head again to watch his lover's body softly throb under his light caresses, comforted by it as the visions continued to traipse through his brain. Certain as he was of them, he was somewhat troubled by the many other faces he'd seen. Some part of him hoped the only faces he'd see for the rest of his life would be hers and their son's. He'd grown to love the quiet here. To have his family to himself. Loved these quiet moments when he could indulge his feelings in serenity. But the rest of the Galaxy would eventually remind them of its existence, and to keep his family entirely to himself in perpetuity would be an obvious impossibility. But at least they'd be together. That was really all he needed to be content.

Aldor smiled up at him and shifted as her hand slinked down her belly, and she lay her fingers over his to guide his thumb through the swollen seam. She briefly closed her eyes to sigh in pleasure before she opened them again. "You will always have some things to yourself, my Love."

Din took his erection in his free hand, and let her watch him stroke himself as silken ribbons crawled softly over his skin. "And some things will always be yours, my Lady."