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[nightsofreylo]

Whom Hades Seized // a fanfiction by nightsofreylo

The bathing chamber is warm, white steam rising from the deep water on either side of her and the flat stones of the walkway beneath her feet. Humidity clings to Rey’s skin, to the nape of her neck and the hollow at the base of her throat, sobering her quickly from the pleasant but ephemeral effects of the wine. Windowless and dark aside from a single inverted glass prism set high into the ceiling, the chamber is stifling, the air within much too dense and close.

Or perhaps it only seems that way because Rey is fully clothed, the fabric of her dress heavy at the hem where it has become soaked with water, while her betrothed is less than a few paces away, every inch of his skin bared for the cleansing rites.

{ chapter xxiv }

Centuries after the destruction of earth, the Knights of Ren remain behind on the planet’s unlivable surface, an ancient order tasked with reaping the bodies sent to the ground from the ship that orbits above the dead planet. These solitary survivors on the underworld have become feared and hated by those who live in the skies, believed to be masked harbingers of Death…but their master, Kylo Ren, believes that one of the sky-walkers may hold the key to healing his land and bringing humanity home. { ao3 }

[nightsofreylo]

Whom Hades Seized // a fanfiction by nightsofreylo

When Rey finally disentangles herself from him, it is like losing a piece of himself. She moves off his lap and begins running her fingers through her hair in an attempt to tame it. It is all in vain. She looks well-kissed, her lips pink and her skin flushed. Her robe is disastrously wrinkled from where she had lain on it while she slept.

“Here,” he murmurs, transfixed by the way the light shines on the errant strands as she combs through them. “Let me.”

{ chapter xxii }

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Centuries after the destruction of earth, the Knights of Ren remain behind on the planet’s unlivable surface, an ancient order tasked with reaping the bodies sent to the ground from the ship that orbits above the dead planet. These solitary survivors on the underworld have become feared and hated by those who live in the skies, believed to be masked harbingers of Death…but their master, Kylo Ren, believes that one of the sky-walkers may hold the key to healing his land and bringing humanity home.

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[nightsofreylo]

Whom Hades Seized // a fanfiction by nightsofreylo

Kylo desperately wants to be the one to soothe the ache inside of her. He wants to watch her come apart on his fingers, to feel the heat of her body gripping him as she finds her release. It takes every shred of control he possesses to keep himself in check. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he knows that Rey deserves better than a quick tryst against a sandblasted wall.

But there is nowhere they can go to be truly alone, Kylo realizes, frustration gnawing at his insides. The knights have dispersed: Morpheus and Hecate are already headed back to the house, Pasithea and Nyx to a late-night holotheater, and Dionysus to a luxury spice house. Maker only knows where Thanatos is. Unless Kylo takes Rey to a boarding house - which is only slightly better than the option of feeling her up in an dusty alleyway - nothing can happen between them.

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Centuries after the destruction of earth, the Knights of Ren remain behind on the planet’s unlivable surface, an ancient order tasked with reaping the bodies sent to the ground from the ship that orbits above the dead planet. These solitary survivors on the underworld have become feared and hated by those who live in the skies, believed to be masked harbingers of Death…but their master, Kylo Ren, believes that one of the sky-walkers may hold the key to healing his land and bringing humanity home. 

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“I’m not permitted to see you in your dress before the ceremony,” Kylo tells her. “According to old imperial superstition, it would doom the marriage.”

“Oh,” Rey says, more than a little disappointed. “But you don’t believe that?”

“Not at all.”

It occurs to her, perhaps too late, that she has neglected entirely to ask him what sort of wedding he might prefer, given the choice. Back in the Wastes, she had answered his questions about Eleusian weddings, and in return he had described for her how the blood rite traditionally proceeds. But he hadn’t always been king, just as she hadn’t always known she was Chthonian – and it would be only natural for him to have envisioned his wedding differently.

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Centuries after the destruction of earth, the Knights of Ren remain behind on the planet’s unlivable surface, an ancient order tasked with reaping the bodies sent to the ground from the ship that orbits above the dead planet. These solitary survivors on the underworld have become feared and hated by those who live in the skies, believed to be masked harbingers of Death…but their master, Kylo Ren, believes that one of the sky-walkers may hold the key to healing his land and bringing humanity home. { ao3 }

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[nightsofreylo]

Whom Hades Seized // a fanfiction by nightsofreylo

When she first agreed to wed him, she had not thought that there could be any sort of true intimacy between them. She’d known from the beginning that their marriage would come with physical obligations, but she never expected him to want her. Given the circumstances of their arrangement, she had steeled herself to receive a cold, entitled husband on her wedding night.

Rey had entirely failed to imagine that he might one day touch her when there was no reason for it. That he might treat her with reverence and respect, instead of resentment. She had not anticipated his passion, or his eagerness for her body. Nor had she expected to want him in return, to enjoy his kisses, to crave more of his touch.

{ xviii }

Centuries after the destruction of earth, the Knights of Ren remain behind on the planet’s unlivable surface, an ancient order tasked with reaping the bodies sent to the ground from the ship that orbits above the dead planet. These solitary survivors on the underworld have become feared and hated by those who live in the skies, believed to be masked harbingers of Death…but their master, Kylo Ren, believes that one of the sky-walkers may hold the key to healing his land and bringing humanity home. { ao3 }

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[nightsofreylo]

Whom Hades Seized // a fanfiction by nightsofreylo

The wind stings Kylo’s face, crisp and cold, but it doesn’t make him feel any less trapped. He braces himself against the outer wall, his composure abandoned now that he is alone. It is all too much. His head pounds, blood rushing through his ears, and his back bows slightly as he tries not to collapse.

He could have lost Rey tonight.

He might still.

{ chapter xvi }

Centuries after the destruction of earth, the Knights of Ren remain behind on the planet’s unlivable surface, an ancient order tasked with reaping the bodies sent to the ground from the ship that orbits above the dead planet. These solitary survivors on the underworld have become feared and hated by those who live in the skies, believed to be masked harbingers of Death…but their master, Kylo Ren, believes that one of the sky-walkers may hold the key to healing his land and bringing humanity home. { ao3 }

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[nightsofreylo]

Whom Hades Seized // a fanfiction by nightsofreylo

The summer has ended and the waiting is over. The moment her feet touch the bank of the river, her husband takes her in his arms once again, but this time it is she who devours him. When they last kissed, she had claimed him with the bitter taste of pomegranate on her tongue. Now they are bound to each other. Their kingdom is shared and they will reign as equals.

She is Persephone, and he is Hades.

{ chapter xv }

Centuries after the destruction of earth, the Knights of Ren remain behind on the planet’s unlivable surface, an ancient order tasked with reaping the bodies sent to the ground from the ship that orbits above the dead planet. These solitary survivors on the underworld have become feared and hated by those who live in the skies, believed to be masked harbingers of Death…but their master, Kylo Ren, believes that one of the sky-walkers may hold the key to healing his land and bringing humanity home. { ao3 }

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[nightsofreylo]

Whom Hades Seized // a fanfiction by nightsofreylo

Rey thinks of the man in the field from her dream, a man who was more feeling than form. Her husband, her king, cutting down the never-ending fields with a long, curved knife. She remembers that he offered her everything that belonged to him. Every grain of sand touched by the sun, every wild thing that grows out of the earth, every stalk of wheat and blade of grass and drop of rain that falls from the sky.

You promised me, she thinks, possessiveness rising up inside of her, even though the dream world and the waking world are not the same. You promised to give me everything.

{ chapter xii }

Centuries after the destruction of earth, the Knights of Ren remain behind on the planet’s unlivable surface, an ancient order tasked with reaping the bodies sent to the ground from the ship that orbits above the dead planet. These solitary survivors on the underworld have become feared and hated by those who live in the skies, believed to be masked harbingers of Death…but their master, Kylo Ren, believes that one of the sky-walkers may hold the key to healing his land and bringing humanity home. { ao3 }

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