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2024-10-29 19:42:56“You look the part.” She plucked at the drab shirt. “But you don’t stand it.” She swatted his lower back. Dragging a clinging hand down his spine.
Not slouching enough? Not hunched enough?
Duly noted for my next venture.
He found himself leaning forward to escape her touch. It feels like the scraping of cheesecloth.
“You’re no serving boy.” She purred. “Are you here perhaps for something else?” Her shrewd eyes moved to the glass still casually resting in his lifted hand. She took it from his fingertips.
That’s it. Drink. He began to unwind.
“Perhaps you’re here for my pleasure.” She ran a finger down the open collar of his tunic. He felt his lip curling and fought the urge to withdraw.
I can smell Radix on her. The awful cross between ash and death that stung his nose.
She reached to clasp the fullness below his waist. Making his teeth grit and his jaw tick as he longed to th
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