She'd never been called any of these things, wasn't sure if she could see herself quite like he did, but she smiled at his care, his words. A soft laugh skipped up her throat as he pointedly ruffled feathers. "Now you're just flattering me," she said quietly, taking the bait and lifting her arm over him, skimming her fingers along the leading edge of his wings. "But I thank you, and I like that you think so. You...do you have any idea what a godsend you are?" Tinder tried tickling his feathers, a sobering look in eyes amber and unlit by flame. "A tree is a dangerous analogy though, my sweet nephilim. Sunlight brings life and I...don't do so well with things that can catch fire."
Understatement of the century.
"I don't...I don't like to think of you as someone I could hurt." Even if that was how relationships worked, in her experience. Employers, coworkers, "friends"...everyone always hurt whoever they needed to in order to get ahead. Tinder herself had delivered others to be hurt--not that she'd originally known the truth. She done it to help, certainly hadn't recruited with the intention of seeing people like her brought low as her life circumstances generally wrought. Intention wasn't the point. She'd hurt innocent people before, no matter if she'd never dealt the blows or sparked her own flame. That was the problem. "Is it always the way of things? Is there ever a way to not hurt someone?"
This wasn't the way to end an explosive round of lovemaking, she was sure. But then, she'd never had a lover who stayed. Certainly not one strong enough to see her through and whisper sweet words around the edges of completion. No one to share her worries with, the thoughts that kept her up at night and made her feel cold inside, where her flame churned desperately to keep such things at bay. She curled underneath him, dragging a leg along his to tangle around the back of his thigh. Tinder's eyes roved across his face. "There must be, because I...this amazing thing wouldn't have happened if I expected it from you."
Understatement of the century.
"I don't...I don't like to think of you as someone I could hurt." Even if that was how relationships worked, in her experience. Employers, coworkers, "friends"...everyone always hurt whoever they needed to in order to get ahead. Tinder herself had delivered others to be hurt--not that she'd originally known the truth. She done it to help, certainly hadn't recruited with the intention of seeing people like her brought low as her life circumstances generally wrought. Intention wasn't the point. She'd hurt innocent people before, no matter if she'd never dealt the blows or sparked her own flame. That was the problem. "Is it always the way of things? Is there ever a way to not hurt someone?"
This wasn't the way to end an explosive round of lovemaking, she was sure. But then, she'd never had a lover who stayed. Certainly not one strong enough to see her through and whisper sweet words around the edges of completion. No one to share her worries with, the thoughts that kept her up at night and made her feel cold inside, where her flame churned desperately to keep such things at bay. She curled underneath him, dragging a leg along his to tangle around the back of his thigh. Tinder's eyes roved across his face. "There must be, because I...this amazing thing wouldn't have happened if I expected it from you."
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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