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2022-01-30 22:31:40I lay comatose on the ground for what seemed like days as charred petals and frost set over my body, the rose garden of Jarngrimr's heart frozen over like tundra. The vines witherered, and blood from thorn pricks, black draugr filth, erupted from my veins as I boiled over.
Seized with chills, I looked at the center of the gardens: there stood Skadhi, the great ice Jotun who watched over me. She delicately plucked the last remaining red rose and crushed it, bringing the petals to her nose as her apparition inhaled. Her hard blue lips softened as she gazed upon me woefully, then she floated over on buckskin boots, three feet above the ground, a mix of ghost and great strides. Her head reached the clouds, and her breasts had a fox pelt over them with rabbit skins hanging from her belt."I felt the amethyst shatter, goddaughter," Skadhi Ondurdis said gently, lifting me up into her palm. She poked at my empty belly – I had barfed up breakfast – and she gRelated chapters
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He helps me up. “I'm carrying you, Jean. Don't struggle.”“No! That's humiliating!” I yell, a loud maudlin. He does so anyways, lifting me up gently. His robes snake around me to stabilize me, and he folds his sooty owl wings to shepherd me away from the public’s eyes. I flail about, too disoriented to put up a united front, and end up with a mouthful of owl feathers.“What did you think would happen, pounding back all those drinks?” Samael says, his voice dry. He carries me out of the bar and further into the dusky hubbub of the streets. “You don't have a demon's temperament for alcohol, and you've never been able to hold your liquor.”“It's called drowning your sorrows, asshat. Alcohol is my crutch. The problem is you. Let me go.”“If I do, you'll fall again.”“I'd rather fall than be carried by you.”Despite my protests, he keeps me aloft, gliding like an omen through the streets. His robes are cold against my cheek, so eternally cold like his skin, just like the grave of his flesh.
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“Somehow, you snore like a foghorn. You look like Briar Rose, trapped in a thicket.” “Zzzz… eh?”“How delicate are the farts of a maiden who babbles in her sleep,,” Lussi drawls, naked, morning wood of his double serpent hemipenes crooked up like twin spears to the dawn. His prehensile cocks weep silky gold precum. My beloved husband idly watches me as the Arctic sun shines through the clouds of Vidagol. “Clear blue skies like sailor’s eyes,” he says. My husband’s amaranthine irises glow, his cheeks flushed as he draws the covers closer to my chin, then he tenderly leans into me, tracing the rise and fall of my breasts in fascination. “No lovelier creature has ever been made. I adore you. I worship you. You are all I want.”“Mrph?” I groan. My mouth stinks of sleep, and their is night grit in my eyes.He takes a deep whiff from my mouth. “Morning breath, as usual. Still cute.”I grunt and flip him the godsfinger. “Ten more minutes!” I groan, pulling the covers above my frazzled curls.
