Airglow Drabble: Moon
Title: Devotion
Word count: 569 (A bit shorter but, y’ know)
CW: Perhaps maybe like, one suggestive sentence or implication. Nothing much beyond that.
Pst pst- come get your Moon hehe-
@zemonkeartistog @sugarhog05 (Figured you might like this one)
What did it mean to be devoted? Moon thought he knew, having been devoted to his brothers his whole life. Caring for them, helping them, looking after them- despite his…search for solitude. Picking up his little brother and dusting him off after a fall. Helping Sun when things got busy or too strenuous. Making sure everyone was alright. He knew what devotion was.
Until you came along, and changed the whole meaning of the word.
Devotion to you was not like devotion to his brothers. It was ranged. One moment wilder, another calmer, tempting in ways he didn’t know he could be tempted. Enticing like taboo but pure like something holy. You were tainting him yet cleansing him at the very same time and it left his mind reeling.
Was it devotion that urged his teeth along your skin in the dead of night where only the sound of the Starling birds cooing up at the cosmos could be heard outside? Was it what made his eyes stay trained to your form when you danced in the light of the stars and the moons, or enticed him to answer your call whenever you asked for him? Was it that very reverence he held for you that urged him to be everything you needed? A home, a protector, a listener, a friend, partner, lover…
Was it devotion, the way he vied for your love and care, to hold him and cradle him as he did oh so carefully to you. Was it what made him tuck in those claws that he had so carefully honed so that no one would harm his family, not wanting to see the heavenly liquid running in your veins spill from your flesh and taint his hands? Was it what drew him back from the wilds- back to home, his brothers? Back to you?
You made him want to be soft. Soft for you, to hold and caress and utter silken words of worship at your feet, kissing every inch that he could- no, what you allowed him to reach. Shaken with such utter emotion, struck with the overwhelming sensation of value of your presence and attention. Of a simple glimpse of that wonderful and utterly beautiful glint in your eyes when you smiled, or laughed. Down deep to his core, hands shaking and mouth dry- oh you made him nervous.
Moon. The ever picture of calm tranquility- the still water in a pond, a single ripple, smoothed and practiced.
But so enraptured. Captured by your soul and light that seemed to fill you from your feet to the tip top of your head and through your arms to your sweet fingertips. You seemed to shine brighter than any light he had counted in the sky.
He wanted to keep you, hoist you up into his arms close to his heart and carry you to his favorite views where he might whisper all these things into your ears, seeing that lovely shade of color bloom onto your face like a flower opening to greet the light. He wanted to tell you everything, truth leaking from his lips like riverflow over smoothed rocks, trusting you with his heart.
He wanted to kiss you. Hold you close.
He wanted to love you, no, he did love you.
Yes, this devotion, while just as strong, was different.
But oh, how he relished in it just as much.











