Kiss Swain
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Success relies on timing. Talon has to hold Swain’s attention long enough for Katarina to make a clean get away and then Talon has to vanish before Swain realizes how he’s been duped.Katarina’s the one who will have to get past several guards and layers of security to the locked files on Riven’s death but Talon thinks he has the harder job. If anything, their roles should be reversed. He can go invisible, he can cast Silence to temporarily disable spell locks - he’d have a much better chance at retrieving the proof that Riven still lives. Despite that logic, Katarina insisted that he distract Swain and of course, Cassiopeia had sided with her. (Most of the time, the Du Couteau girls feel like his siblings. When they send him to do something too dangerous for them, they feel like Marcus’ daughters.) Talon comes in through the window, like always, and tosses an object wrapped in magic-suppressing fabric onto Swain’s desk. It’s a neat little talisman, something he picked up in a Shuriman market, that grants a temporary boost of speed to its wearer. Talking about it to Swain and haggling to sell it should distract the Grand General.Hopefully.Talon hates plans that rely on hope.When there’s a outbreak of yelling down the hallway and Swain half-rises from his chair, Talon’s first instinct is to stab the man. A dead Grand General can’t have his sister executed for treason....The rest of the Trifarix, however, can have him and Katarina both executed for treason if he kills Swain.Halfway through a lunge, he changes the motion into a vault and leaps over the desk. He lands on Swain’s lap, shining dragonblade angled away from him, and grabs a fistful of hair. He’s seen Cassiopeia do this far more often than he’s done it himself - when he yanks Swain into a kiss, it’s sloppy and hard, Talon biting down and then licking into the other’s mouth.Swain’s hard under him and not in the good way. His muscles are stiff with tension and Talon can feel how close he is being pushed off Swain’s lap. Desperation pushes him onward, makes him twist and writhe as he tries to find the right angle. It’s like picking a lock, isn’t it? If he just figures out the right approach, if he can calculate the right way to fit their mouths together...Magic flares around them, red and vicious, and Swain’s mouth is a beak that tears Talon’s lip open and sends blood spilling between them. The black hole-suck of energy hits Talon like a sword to the spine but he won’t back down. Swain may have transformed but he’s still here.As long as Swain’s here, Katarina still has a chance to escape.As long as Swain’s here, Talon’s still winning (and if he can’t get away afterwards, his sisters will have to live with the knowledge they chose this for him).