Vervain
So much work to do, and neither of them going anywhere at all. Vai gasped a dramatic note of offence at his remark, the smile on her lips betraying any sense of seriousness she might have been trying to create. ”Is that so? Just you wait until the sun goes down,” she purred to him, the mischievous narrowing of her eyes suggesting all sorts of things not suitable for broad daylight on the beach.
But damn - they’d never get anywhere at all if this was the kind of thing that happened within five minutes of them being around each other all the time. Leaning in for another kiss - this one an infuriatingly chaste brush of her lips against Zeph’s - Vai peeled herself away and decided to ignore any warmth in her cheeks, any heat in her belly.
”So,” she said brightly, lingering close to him now so they might walk together along the beach - a stroll, one might say. ”What’s the best thing you’ve ever found out here after Longnight?”
But damn - they’d never get anywhere at all if this was the kind of thing that happened within five minutes of them being around each other all the time. Leaning in for another kiss - this one an infuriatingly chaste brush of her lips against Zeph’s - Vai peeled herself away and decided to ignore any warmth in her cheeks, any heat in her belly.
”So,” she said brightly, lingering close to him now so they might walk together along the beach - a stroll, one might say. ”What’s the best thing you’ve ever found out here after Longnight?”
