Moved by a sudden impulse

Courage is not simply one of the virtues,

Her question had him laughing around the kiss, the truth that tried desperately to break into the moment escaping in a breathy, uncaring word. "Probably." Then he silenced his own objections as much as hers, planting his mouth firmly against her lips in a deep, searing kiss that he drowned in. His grip tightened on her, unwilling to release her unless she asked, unwilling to let objections form. 

When he finally needed to come for air, Zavien turned his head into the kisses along the scruff of his jaw, his eyes fluttering for a moment before his gaze returned to her, dark and honest and full of desire. He couldn't stop the words that fell forth. "But I like you, Soh." Reasoning was fleeing along with his ability to contain the truth or its repercussions. A disbelieving smile on his as he added, "so I don't really care right now." 

One hand left her side, running down the exposed thigh wrapping around his hips and securing Soh in place as he stole another greedy kiss that burned through to his core. He pressed insistently against the hem of her shirt, beginning to hate the few pieces of clothing between them, already plotting ways to get them off with minimal loss of contact.

Zavien

but the form of every virtue at the testing point.