Perhaps I have drawn you close to drive a knife between your ribs.
[She offers as an alternative, breathless, but there's no real threat to it. Rather, the self-depreciating tone her words take suggests she's well aware how unwise this course of action is. It's a gamble, one played entirely off of the lancer's refusal to strike her down a second time after her escape from her clutches, and one that she knows could have ended very, very badly with even a fraction less control on Shadow's part.
Her skin is warm under Shadow's fingers, and if the situation were any less dire, she would be sure her ears would be burning red with embarrassment over how... intimate all this is. But that hardly matters right now; what matters is--]
Is this helping?
[... The truth is, she's seen enough suffering that she's been powerless to do anything about. May she be allowed this foolishness, to ease her conscience.]
no subject
[She offers as an alternative, breathless, but there's no real threat to it. Rather, the self-depreciating tone her words take suggests she's well aware how unwise this course of action is. It's a gamble, one played entirely off of the lancer's refusal to strike her down a second time after her escape from her clutches, and one that she knows could have ended very, very badly with even a fraction less control on Shadow's part.
Her skin is warm under Shadow's fingers, and if the situation were any less dire, she would be sure her ears would be burning red with embarrassment over how... intimate all this is. But that hardly matters right now; what matters is--]
Is this helping?
[... The truth is, she's seen enough suffering that she's been powerless to do anything about. May she be allowed this foolishness, to ease her conscience.]