This choice: She falls forward to embrace him; overcome just to have someone to talk too. • Go Back... Telthis gave a surprised "oof!" as Kayva flung herself forward, teary eyed as she grabbed onto him and buried her face in his chest. After a moment of seeing her hold tight and whimper, the male elf lowers his own arms to wrap about her waist and settles his chin atop her head.
"H-hey now, I don't know what you've been through but everything is going to be fine," he says, raising a hand to absently begun plucking tree branches from her hair, "You've been through a lot huh?"
She nods silently, sniffling and taking a deep breath to try and calm herself; this couldn't be making the best first impression but still...
"I-I haven't been able to just...touch another person in..." She shakes her head, sighing and looking back up to him, still a little misty eyed.
He offered a thin smile back and slowly began to crouch down, back against the tree. Kayva gave a curious look and flick of her ears, but he drew her down with him, until hey were both sitting at the base of the trunk, Kayva half in his lap and still leaned against him for support.
"Why don't you tell me your story..." Telthis offered, putting a comforting arm around her.
Nodding, Kayva started from the beggining; her apprenticeship, the spell gone awry, the terror it had caused her home town. She paused awkwardly and fumbled words; trying to remember how to speak quite right outside of her own head, but in the end managed. Telthis listened intently to her story, his arms slowly tightening protectively around her as she related her ordeal; surviving in a wilderness not really up to the task of supporting her, naked and alone.
"That's some tale," He says softly as she finishes, "You're something else to tough it out so long, I'm impressed."
"T-thanks," she said with a blush, turning her head slightly away; trying to keep a handle on herself but not sure how well she was succeeding. He was the first man she'd seen in years, and his attractiveness, she was sure, was not simply a play of the light or her company-starved mind. Still, she knew so little about him, and fought down the growing fascination, even desire, brewing within her.
"What about you are you...stuck like this too?" Kayva asked curiously.   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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