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Jul 14, 2015 14:37:55 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jul 14, 2015 14:37:55 GMT -5
"Me? Lovely?" He lets out a soft chuckle as his hand is smacked away. "Oh yes. Adorned in jewelry and beautiful linens, as well."
That same hand runs through his thick, pink hair. So soft and beautiful, perfumed in delicious scents and his skin soft with velvety, perfumed oils as well.
"I'm as beautiful as they come. You can feel for yourself if you'd like," referring to his face, seeing how she's blind.
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Jul 14, 2015 15:02:07 GMT -5
Post by ophelia on Jul 14, 2015 15:02:07 GMT -5
Jewelry and linens. He speaks as if he is an Egyptian king, which she now supposes wouldn't have been too far off from the way that he seems to dress and behaves.
As beautiful as they come, he says. But she can only wonder what kind of grotesque creature might lie in wait if she flies too close to the sun. He burns with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns while her own presence is far more lackluster in comparison. What if he were to melt her metaphoric wax wings?
Still, she reaches out and touches ambrosial skin. Her touches feather-light as she traces the curve of the other's jaw, over Eros's bow, along his raised cheekbones, and along the bridge of his nose.
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Jul 14, 2015 15:07:22 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jul 14, 2015 15:07:22 GMT -5
As she pets his soft face, he stands still and allows her to examine him. His face is angular, but still so smooth. His lips tug into a smile and he closes his eyes, giving her the chance to feel his long eyelashes.
"You seem so scared, as if i'll bite."
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Jul 14, 2015 16:16:05 GMT -5
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Post by ophelia on Jul 14, 2015 16:16:05 GMT -5
He was not lying when he says that he is beautiful. He is. Hopelessly, perhaps irresponsibly beautiful. How she had longed to deny it with the plainness of a skylark's coloration and how she had longed to deny such claims. But he was, she thinks as her hands trace ambrosial skin. Digits carefully fall over the dips of the other's eyelids, making sure that she does not "accidentally" claw out his eyes.
"Would it be impolite for me to tell you that I don't believe you in the slightest?" A wry smile. "But I suppose biting is an accusation that is more reserved for my kind."
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Jul 14, 2015 16:21:15 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jul 14, 2015 16:21:15 GMT -5
"You think that i'll bite you?" He asks when her hands are away from his mouth. "I mean.... if you want me to... I suppose i could spare a nip."
There's a playful tease to his voice, one that just barely hides the fact that he would love to nip at this girl.
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Jul 14, 2015 16:28:10 GMT -5
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Post by ophelia on Jul 14, 2015 16:28:10 GMT -5
"I do." Think that he would bite her at least. She wouldn't have been surprised if he took a nip at her fingers. Her arms drop back down to her side and Ophelia takes another step back.
"Now that doesn't suit you, pretty skylark." Although, she won't deny that she wouldn't particularly find it completely abhorrent.
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Jul 15, 2015 20:23:49 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jul 15, 2015 20:23:49 GMT -5
A smug grin tugs at his lips. It really is such a shame that she can't see it as it pulls at his pretty, plump lips. "Does it not?"
He hums as he ponders.
"Why not?" He asks as he takes the girl's hand gently into his own. Gracefully, he pulls it up and gives it a chaste kiss. "Even larks have sharp beaks."
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Jul 15, 2015 20:50:05 GMT -5
Post by ophelia on Jul 15, 2015 20:50:05 GMT -5
He has an air of confidence that no matter what she says, she cannot sway. A rarity in this time and age, though far from a good one. An ugly little lump of coal that under the right pressure might have collapsed or become a diamond in the rough. Which of them would be become in time, she wonders.
She does not pull her hand away this time, but lips pull into a surprised 'o' before her expression relaxes and becomes ever placid once more. What a strange skylark indeed. An an ever stranger crow to humor the smallest affections given to her by someone not of her kind. Or rather, by someone at all. In all her recollections of both past and present, Ophelia had never been the sort to be courted.
This was not that, she reminds herself. Only a foolish old woman would think of such a vile thing. ( Unfortunately, she has. And unfortunately, parts of her long for such a quaint little dream. )
"Sharp beaks and an awfully plain song. I wonder what songs you stole, pretty skylark."
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Jul 15, 2015 21:09:06 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jul 15, 2015 21:09:06 GMT -5
"Mm... I'm not too fond of stealing," he admits honestly. "I only take what's mine. Nor do I lie~" Because honestly? What's the point of lying? It really does only get a person into a lot of trouble.
"You really think I'm so plain?" He asks with a strong sense of disappointment in his voice "What, pray tell, is so damn plain?"
He crosses his arms. "I should take my kiss back."
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Jul 15, 2015 21:17:56 GMT -5
Post by ophelia on Jul 15, 2015 21:17:56 GMT -5
"How honorable of you." She replies, offering a slight quirk of a smile. He seems like someone too good to be true after everything had happened. Most were not so honorable and he hadn't given her any reason to doubt his words thus far.
But the Rift was a terrible, awful thing that did equally terrible and awful things to the people that had caused it.
"I do." An awfully plain little thing. "Not in the way you speak nor in the way you look. There is nothing plain about that," Her voice grows soft as if to match the dimming lights in the cavern though she has no sense of light herself. "but you have a plain little heart." Hands rest on his arms. "Potential. But as it is, there is nothing impressive that is inside of you. You're a small and awful little man." Cracked lips spread into a wicked smile.
"Will you, now?"
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Jul 15, 2015 21:24:09 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jul 15, 2015 21:24:09 GMT -5
As she speaks, he listens. And as he listens, his face grows more and more irritated. There's a hint of hurt, as if she's digging so deep and uprooting all the worst parts about him. So easily, too.
He jerks his arms away from her, scowling at the little crow. "I'm not small, nor am I awful," he growls.
Her grin digs at him, so shallow and wicked. "Who're you to say those things about me, anyway? You don't know me."
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Jul 15, 2015 22:05:18 GMT -5
Post by ophelia on Jul 15, 2015 22:05:18 GMT -5
Has she made him uncomfortable?
She does not advance when the other pulls his arms away. "Are you so certain?" She lifts her hands and adjusts the lace garment wrapped about her eyes. "Or are you perhaps afraid because even someone blind can tell? That everyone else might be capable of just the same if not more?"
Her smile does not falter. "I don't know you, that is true." She replies before she holds out her hand to him, her palm upturned towards the sky. ( Well, the ceiling in this instance. ) "I understand much more than you could ever begin to imagine. The intricacies of the universe and how each thread overlays the other. I know horribly wicked things about you." She knows horribly wicked things about most everyone.
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Jul 15, 2015 22:13:15 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jul 15, 2015 22:13:15 GMT -5
She has. He holds himself, hands holding tightly as he takes his step back. The more she speaks, the more his eyes widen.
Flashbacks from his past, the one before he was filled with angelic light, fills his mind. A past of abuse and vices, drugs and women, overdoses and mornings filled with blurred vision. Malakai swallows thickly as he tightens his grip on himself, though he doesn't realize he's doing it.
"You don't know anything," his voice trembles as the memories rise to the surface. The memories he's done well thus far to suppress. That was the past. It's where those memories belong and should stay. "I'm not like that anymore."
Or is he?
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Jul 15, 2015 22:47:38 GMT -5
Post by ophelia on Jul 15, 2015 22:47:38 GMT -5
Smile turns into something of a sneer. What a dreadfully boring little bird.
And here she had thought she had come across something more interesting. She takes a few steps forward when he steps back, the woman holding up both hands to either side of her before she lets her arms fall back to her sides. "I don't?" She doesn't, maybe. But she doesn't have to be brilliant to know that she's unnerved him just with words. There was no need for proof.
"If you weren't, would you have not denied it once? Your heart is racing and there is the delicious smell of fear." She replies, lifting a single digit to tap against her chin. "Or is it distress?" He smells of a raging inferno. Of cinnamon twigs burning and ash. "Do you know why they call a skylark a skylark, dear little bird?"
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Jul 15, 2015 23:13:27 GMT -5
Post by malakai tyro on Jul 15, 2015 23:13:27 GMT -5
It isn't her that he's scared of.
It's himself.
He's afraid of what he used to be, of what he can be now, but this inner power that he has... he's yet to discover it. Malakai knows there's something so deep in him that can do such powerful things, but it's hidden, buried inside, locked away until the perfect moment that Michael wants him to have it.
Fear, distress? It doesn't matter. Both apply here.
His fingers scratch at his bronzed skin, raking red marks to its surface. "Because they're flighty?" He asks her, his mind blank and gone from complete thought. If it wasn't for the fear, he'd know the real answer.
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