"So it's fine for you to run around naked in the middle of the night, but I can't go for a ride?"
It occurred to her only after she'd barked the words that his nakedness and her riding could be construed all together differently. And occurred to her so viscerally that spots of crimson stained her already flushed cheeks.
"I wanted out of my cage every bit as much as you." That sounded almost plaintive by contrast, the old panic of boundaries enforced by magical plants and her mother's will turning Queenly anger into something at once young but also powerfully primal.
Why did he alway seem to hit her in her weakest points?
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Date: 2017-05-09 06:37 pm (UTC)It occurred to her only after she'd barked the words that his nakedness and her riding could be construed all together differently. And occurred to her so viscerally that spots of crimson stained her already flushed cheeks.
"I wanted out of my cage every bit as much as you." That sounded almost plaintive by contrast, the old panic of boundaries enforced by magical plants and her mother's will turning Queenly anger into something at once young but also powerfully primal.
Why did he alway seem to hit her in her weakest points?