(Because the other thread is never going to finish)
After Lamia has had he shopping spree, spending way too much on her little makeover. Her phone buzzes with a text from the prince of lust himself. He's sent her an address to meet him at which ends up being a very fancy restaurant in gluttony
As she walks into the restaurant, she smoothes her dress with her hands and nervously twists a ring on her finger, looking around for Dravan, wondering if she might have gotten here too early
He's standing near the entrance, looking at his watch as he waited for her to arrive. He looked up, brightening up when he saw her and walking over, "wow.... Wow, you look... Woah."
She giggles and swishes her dress a bit, blushing “thanks, how kind of you to say.” she laughs again and winks
He smiled, leaning down to kiss her as he looped his arms around her waist, "I hope you're excited for a little surprise I have prepared for us tonight."
She kisses him back and smiles “Oh, well now I am! What is it?”
He grinned, poking lightly at her nose, "well that would spoil the surprise my dear, but I suppose we can always have dinner somewhere else if you'd prefer." He offered her his arm, "I have a few ideas of things you might like. Come on, it's time I showed you something new. "
She loops her arm through his and grins “Lead the way, your highness~”
He chuckled softly, leaning down to kiss her again, "keep that up and I'll just skip to dessert and take you home~"
She kisses him and blushes again “Don’t get my hopes up~ but also, surprise time?” She looks excited
He led her back out of the restaurant, toward an Alley where a portal to the mortal realm was waiting for them, "you said you wanted to go, I thought you might like to explore the mortal realm a bit."
“Oh… wow” she turns and hugs him tight, kissing him excitedly “oh thank you, this is the best surprise ever! Can we go right now?”
"That was the intention." he chuckled softly, leading he through. They stepped out into a forest. It was dark, the last bits of light shining through the trees as the sun was setting. "Welcome to my home country, Arborellia. "
“Wow… it’s beautiful” she walks over to a tree and touches it “this is so cool!” She lies down on the floor in the grass, smiling
He snorted softly, crouching next to her, "you're gonna get dirty doing that, princess. "
She smiles at him “it’s very soft down here”
"It is. Beautiful place to die, isn't it?" He sat down next to her, "very comfortable."
“To… die?” She looks up “Is this where you…? In this forest?”
"The first time, yeah. About... 300 yards west of here. "
“… do you wanna go somewhere else?” She sits up
"I don't mind being here. These forests were my home. One bad memory doesn't remove all the good ones. "
“That makes sense…” she leans against him “did you ever leave this place? Go explore the world?”
"I've probably explored less of the mortal world than I have hell." He shrugged. "My entire life here was... It was good. It was difficult, but fulfilling. I had a loving family that was super close. Fell in love... Got killed by her father."
“That last bit doesn’t sound too good. Is that when you came down to hell?”
"I bloody wish! No, her father hadn't quite killed me. He'd slit my throat, then left me to bleed out." He tilted his head a bit and grazed his fingers over it. The scar was faint, centuries and multiple changes in form having faded it to nearly nothing. "The fairy queen found me as I was dying. She offered me a choice, she could let me die and let my soul find its judgement, or I could abandon my soul and become one of her court. She was... Entertained by me. I had thought, a few years with the fae and then I'll be strong enough to come back and find her again. The time distortion wasn't explained to me until I was trying to get back. Centuries had passed in what to me had only been a few years. Sephitus should have been dead by then. Obviously, she wasn't. Still isn't as far as I'm aware. Anyways, the story goes to Rotten from there and then... " he smiled a bit and took her hands in his, gently kissing them. "You. "
She smiles and blushes, looking away shyly “Well, I’m sorry you had to go through all of that… but I suppose I’m also glad, as it lead you to me…. would you go back and stop it all, if you could?”
