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Rafayel - the dangers of deep waters - ChicletPrime - 06-01-2025
It’s a little like diving, he’s always thought. There’s a rhythm to it, to move with intent and purpose into the pressure as it begins to assert itself, to acclimatize as quickly as he has to without really needing to think about it.
He leans down just those bare few inches to make it seem like a secret, touches his flute to hers. The little bell tone is so pure, so soft that he’s not sure anyone even standing over his shoulder would hear it. True artistry, he’s found, is so often underappreciated but if he can’t indulge himself with a few filigrees of ornamentation here and there, then what’s the point of it all anyways?
“You make it sound like an adventure! But you have to know, I am allergic to all forms of exertion.” He lets his eyes flick to her lips, to her eyes, then tilts his head. “It messes terribly with my hair,” he confesses cheerfully.
She laughs and lifts her face up in answer, eyelashes fluttering down in a reaction that might be practiced but is no less welcome for it. Closer, he thinks. Come here, little fish.
He’d created the current for her to follow all evening, letting her trail in his wake for the last hour even as he’d chased her through the black and white tuxedo waters. It’s lovely that they are here now, as he intended for them to be, the start of his little play in three acts. The susurrus of this particular sea swirls around them still but he builds these moments carefully, with an eye for both the detail and their inherent fragility. Her breath, sweet with wine and naivety, touches his cheek.
"All forms of exertion?”
His smile is crooked as her fingertips reach out impulsively to comb through the curls by his temple, barely touching. He’s close enough to hear her breath catch in her throat as her fingers tug on the strands, to see the swallow, a stutter that this time does not seem in the least practised. Her hand falls away a heartbeat later but the damage, such as will be seen soon enough, is done.
“Well,” he murmurs in the reservoir made to hold it, cradled by the sudden pulse in her throat and her half parted lips. “Maybe not all.”
He contemplates the smoothness of her neck and she, caught little thing, seems about to offer it. Little fish, pretty fish. There is motion and a sudden, rising swell arrowing in, more felt than seen. Stupid fish.
He lifts his head away but keeps the smile that is more tooth than grin. “Ah, sorry! That was too bold of me, don’t you think?" He widens his eyes as if in apology, to catch more light, to show off their color and sheen. "Are you thirsty? Should I get you more champagne? I should probably go dunk my head in the pool. You know, cool off.”
It’s almost on them, the storm surge that is either father or fiancé and hopefully a few of the bodyguards too if the tides have been kind. He sways back, reaches out to take her glass and she yields it so sweetly and without protest that he gives a caress of his fingers over hers in farewell, the stem of the flute so thin that even too strong a thought would break it.
Rafayel turns on his heel, lifts his own glass to slide gold and anger down his throat, and braces to be loudly accosted. Thirsty work, this.
And his meal still so far away.
RE: Rafayel - the dangers of deep waters - Coldsaturn - 06-01-2025
I am? In love?
I was not prepared for this study in scarlet. You can't write biblically accurate siren!Raf and then expect me to be fine
RE: Rafayel - the dangers of deep waters - ChicletPrime - 06-02-2025
i feel so rusty writing, its like i can feel the flakes snapping off.
this is where i struggle and say "thank you, so glad both of us liked this!" because i really do like this and also think about half the words are wrong.
RE: Rafayel - the dangers of deep waters - Coldsaturn - 06-02-2025
If that's you being rusty, I fear what your final boss form will look like
RE: Rafayel - the dangers of deep waters - ChicletPrime - 06-02-2025
my final boss form SLAYS. i have written fanfiction that goes so hard to the wall, three NPCs got pregnant just watching.
may lightning strike here as well. at the very least, we'll be very entertained and consider this: nobody knows it exists but you :P
EDIT: once again a stupid emoticon inserted itself because i forgot to click the "disable smilies" in the post box. i notice you don't use emoticons either -- are you fine with it if i just delete the damn things entirely? then if you want to :D at me, it will be text-only like god and me intended.
RE: Rafayel - the dangers of deep waters - Coldsaturn - 06-02-2025
I will psychologically prepare myself for these future exclusive treats. Starting to stretch my muscles myself now that I'm halfway done with the timeline playlists for you.
Throw the smilies in the fire. It will be :D and xD and ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ like a proper forum of old.