( @vvindex / kaz / continued )
kaz brekker comes as a thief in the night and steals inej’s breath from her lungs. he’s as silent as the wraith --- her echoing footsteps long since silenced --- and as sharp as one of her knives, strapped to her leg. it almost hurts, the sudden bloom of warmth inside a body so used to dampening things down, and yet inej would keep her hand in the flames for the rest of her life, just to be able to share the warmth with her ice-cold boy, seeping into his darkest corners and reminding him that she’s here. she is his, and he is hers, and now he’s stripping away his armour, inej is going nowhere. dancing over the strewn pieces, and the sharp edges that lie beneath them, is nothing for the girl who dances across rooftops and scales vertical walls.
it’s worth it, for this. it’s worth it, to be able to touch him. it’s worth it, to have him kiss her.
many men have touched her, their lips on her skin turning her stomach into knots, no amount of scrubbing enough to wash away how dirty she feels. but kaz...kaz is dirty too, his deeds written on his skin (the deeds she has helped with), and inej wants him to touch her. she wants to feel his lips on hers.
she wants this. she wants him. all of him.
her eyes stay open, her hand tightening on the back of his neck; she cannot warm him if he jumps across the room at the first touch. she cannot see him without armour if he pulls it back on straight away.
only when the kiss is over do her eyes close, soaking it in, a hand pressing flat against his chest, over his heart. ❝ warmer? ❞