gentle pets for Sona
The beating of a heart speaks volumes. || @forvinti .
Gentle does the touch come from one who feels as a stranger. Ranger-knight, she is called, but how close is her heart to Sona’s own, how thunderous the beat of a chest that threatens to burst open, to spill forth a symphony that it might entreat or mayhaps leave her stranger in wide-eyed wonder. All that escapes the young matriarch is a soft exhale, a shuddering breath, as her lashes flutter - as her heart flutters.
She leans, as lovers do, and takes her breath once more. How long has it been held, this torturous breath, how quickly it is taken away by calloused fingers. Forget me not, dear knight. She is between agony and adoration, warmth rising to her cheeks and eyes, as soft lips grace just below the ear. An exhale, soft, hot, tentative. Her lashes do flutter again as she considers her impulse, considers an unprovoked touch, considers how gently Quinn’s hands have moved - how gentle they might be across her skin. How gentle this could be, if only she had the courage.
She is slow to retreat, slower still as she gazes through her bangs, as if seafoam and honey strands can hide her. Gentle do her lips graze, catching the edge of skin, and knees do buckle so that she may remain so lowered, nose to nose. There is a moment here she does not want to leave, with thunder in her heart, to scream out her name. Azure strands sway at her waist, each moment roars in her breast. Cries, she thinks, for release.
She hides behind lashes, slowly drifting gaze dancing around bashful, as one hand rises. Grace her cheek the same, she wishes of herself. Draw up your courage. Golden eyes, warm as the sun, lay their gaze to the floor. Time seems not to pass, not in this aching, quivering moment. They are strangers, she and her ranger-knight. Strangers still, as one dexterous hand pulls Quinn’s hand away. It was not appropriate. They ought not to. They are strangers.
How her gaze pulls up, a tilt of her head, how time slows here. Eyes lock before her gaze dances away, warmth growing on her cheeks as she pulls the woman’s hand away. They should not, she knows. Even as the sun catches in brunette hair, a welcome accent. Even as her gaze trails across each jagged ridge of skin, shoulder, and cheek in awe and admiration. Even as her heart thunders in her chest, pleading in the drowning out of all noise but traitorous evidence of desire. Innocent and trembling is her heart and her lips, another exhale. Three breaths, that is all this moment was. Three soft, trembling breaths. Too loud and the spell breaks, the ephemeral rays of the sun that worship and kiss her ranger’s cheeks - as she wishes to worship and kiss - and this peace, this quiet, this wanderlust for another’s entirety, it vanishes. She should not. They are strangers. Oh, she should not.
She places Quinn’s hand upon her cheek, leaning into the touch and exhaling in pleasant appreciation, eyes closing. She should not, but she has, and time cannot stop her now. If only her selfishness is permitted.















