@robynhode continued from here...
A hand had moved to hold her skirts well around her knees as the other held fast against his hands, each groove and callus telling it’s own story against her sheltered one.
The expedition throughout the keep was one of utter silence, altered paths, and avoidance of other occupants. But in the safe space, tucked away from everything,she could not stop the rise of her heels to elevate her height to meet his lips.
What was honor when compared with a kiss? No preassigned moment could hold a candle to the spontaneity of the shared moment. A kiss, a kiss, it was all she could give him, no more, no less.
But in such a gentle touch resounded more than anything else that she might have possessed.
She was his as he was hers.
She wondered if the old gods had eyes to see in this place. If not, did the ghosts of the bones in crypts far beneath- kept dormant by the iron swords and bangles that held them fast in their deadly sleep sputter and wake at such a tender moment.
There was no honor in it. Just broken oaths and an untimely end.
honor be damned,
“ I thought you were dead.”















