[ It's a bold declaration, somehow even more striking than her careful undressing in front of him, than the touches that skirt the edges of intimacy. Tension drawn specifically from the strange wellspring of this place, when none would dare speak to him this way — let alone touch him — in the whole of Zaun and Piltover both. (Only Jinx, always Jinx, the curlicue scribbled over his grid of straight lines.) But motion pulls through him like a surfacing echo, his hand coming to rest at the small of her back, a point of pressure to keep her suspended in the air as their lips meet.
He should, he thinks, close his eyes. It occurs to him as he watches hers flutter shut, the whole of her softening as she leans into him. But it only crosses his mind in the way that people consider fixing a creaky door and then put it off — he looks at her instead, at the pretty set of her features and the scar that runs from her nose and over her cheek. Hints at the hard life he knows she veils, at odds with the softness he catches in the odd falter or the pillow of her lips.
The kiss is a tide. The wash of a wave over fine sand on its crest, gentle in its fall back to the sea.
He doesn't pull back straight away, letting her keep him there with the hold she has on his chin. ]
Wouldn't you, now?
[ Rhetorical — a question to be answered more fully when they've more between them than a few meetings. ]
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He should, he thinks, close his eyes. It occurs to him as he watches hers flutter shut, the whole of her softening as she leans into him. But it only crosses his mind in the way that people consider fixing a creaky door and then put it off — he looks at her instead, at the pretty set of her features and the scar that runs from her nose and over her cheek. Hints at the hard life he knows she veils, at odds with the softness he catches in the odd falter or the pillow of her lips.
The kiss is a tide. The wash of a wave over fine sand on its crest, gentle in its fall back to the sea.
He doesn't pull back straight away, letting her keep him there with the hold she has on his chin. ]
Wouldn't you, now?
[ Rhetorical — a question to be answered more fully when they've more between them than a few meetings. ]