@empyreanevents my submission for day one: touch. so excited for this week and getting to see all the amazing work that everyone creates! i hope you enjoy my contribution.
also peep my headcanon that dain has ocd.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dain Aetos/Sloane Mairi, Aaric | Cam & Sloane Mairi
Characters: Sloane Mairi, Dain Aetos, Aaric | Cam (Empyrean)
Additional Tags: Slain Week 2025, Empyrean Events - Slain Week 2025, One Shot, Enemies to Lovers, neurodivergent character, Dain Aetos Has OCD, That's My Personal Headcanon, And I'm Force-Feeding It To All Of You, Signets (Empyrean), Fluff
Series: Part 1 of slain week 2025
Summary:
when she pulled power from him it felt like she was pulling the oxygen from his lungs. but it wasn’t scary—no, there was a sense of peace that rushed over him like a wave as he felt power seep out of him. as if she was relieving him of some great burden by taking that power and giving it to someone else. as if her very touch was soothing his restless heart.
dain almost hates himself for how much he craves that feeling again. the way his brain fell silent and the world stopped making his head spin. it is as if sloane holds the keys to his calm, but she is a storm he can’t battle his way through to get to it. she has his heart in her grasp, but she blows it away with her typhoon winds.