Moved by a sudden impulse

Sohalia

Say my name
And every color illuminates

A part of Soh knew that this was a bad idea, that this could end very poorly. Even aside from past loves, Zavien was her friend, and she had come to treasure that friendship. She didn’t want to mess it up with an unexpected kiss. But maybe that friendship was also the reason why it was so easy to fall into him, her world narrowing to the man hovering above her on the couch and the way his lips pressed insistently against hers.

It was just like everything else that seemed to define their relationship, though the lines of just what that relationship was were currently growing very blurry indeed. The ease that they found in one another made this almost… expected. Welcomed, even. And so she couldn’t bring herself to listen to all the reasons why this might end in tears. Because what if it didn’t? What if Flora had been right, and something better had really just been waiting here for her to realize it existed?

So she kissed him back, and she didn’t have even the slightest hesitation when the kiss deepened into something less chaste and more greedy. One hand trailed from where it had fallen above her head to caress his cheek; her other reached up and around his neck, tugging him insistently closer. His touch against the bare skin of her sides had her arching against him, eager and pliant beneath his fingers. She wanted more, she realized. More than kisses, more than friendship, more, more, more - consequences be damned.

We are shining
And we will never be afraid again