There's a darkness down inside me
That I know we'll both enjoy
That I know we'll both enjoy
There will never be a time where she isn't grateful for Nate's propensity to ask for things for herself. Already she knows that this day will be forever gilded in her memory, stained glass watercolor that immerses her in all shades of emotion that she will look back on with a full heart forever. It almost feels like a dream, to have come here burdened with grief and shame and regret, only to now feel as if everything is finally settling to rights. Like her axis has been tilted all this time, gravity meaningless, and now they have centered her. Their shared joy only makes her all the more confident in her answer, an endless feedback cycle that she never wants to end. She wants to stay here, in their tangled version of an embrace, and never emerge from this bed. Linger in the light and love that they have painfully cultivated, and never return to the pain of reality.
Sunjata's warm, calloused hand upon her spine is intoxicating, and their kisses linger on her lips like the sweetest nectar. They are all tired, broken, healing. Yet she has never felt more at peace than in this moment. It's a terrifying, dizzying downward spiral, but she has given her word not to pull away from them again. Hotaru won't let her fears rule her even if she may quietly nurse them in private.
"Me, shielding you? You'll have to shrink quite a lot for that to be a possibility." Her grin finally obtaining its teasing, viperous edge to it that has been missing since Leafchange. "Well...when's the date? I think that's the most important thing don't you think?" She aims this over her shoulder at Nate, coy and lighthearted, basking in the security in herself she suddenly feels, enveloped by these two men who love her for that. Who have seen the good and bad and terrible, and have asked her to marry them anyway.
Sunjata's warm, calloused hand upon her spine is intoxicating, and their kisses linger on her lips like the sweetest nectar. They are all tired, broken, healing. Yet she has never felt more at peace than in this moment. It's a terrifying, dizzying downward spiral, but she has given her word not to pull away from them again. Hotaru won't let her fears rule her even if she may quietly nurse them in private.
"Me, shielding you? You'll have to shrink quite a lot for that to be a possibility." Her grin finally obtaining its teasing, viperous edge to it that has been missing since Leafchange. "Well...when's the date? I think that's the most important thing don't you think?" She aims this over her shoulder at Nate, coy and lighthearted, basking in the security in herself she suddenly feels, enveloped by these two men who love her for that. Who have seen the good and bad and terrible, and have asked her to marry them anyway.
and it's screaming from within me
to have us set it free
to have us set it free
