Ascending Legends

[BookWyrm]

Dayn smiled as he leaned down and kissed her cheek. "Thank you love. You are incredible." He scooted around, cuddling up against Arryn before nuzzling against her neck. "How are you feeling?"

 

[Dragongal]

"Sore and tired. If I hadn't had the resistance from the dark sliver only recently being removed, I'd be in better condition." Arryn emjoye the feeling of him nuzzling against her and being the one to cuddle closer instead of her. She wanted to be close, but she wasn't sure she could really move much at the moment. She held up one of her hands to look at, her eyebrows knitting together as she looked at the bruises, healing blisters, and cuts on her hands."It hurts...?"

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn opened an eye and looked at her hand. He gently reached up and took it before bringing it down to his lips and kissing her palm. "These hands saved my life. Even now they are still lovely." He carefully started to rub his thumb along her palm as he brought it down to his chest. He wanted to be close to her, to feel her skin against his own, to bask in her warmth and love. He tucked his head gently under her chin, similar to how she had done him before, and nuzzled against her neck before gently kissing it. "How about we just stay here for a while? Just hold each other and let the world pass us by for a while." Dayn got up for a second and moved some more logs onto the fire before going back and snuggling just as close to her as he had been before. "Are you cold? I can shift if you want me to."

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn felt chills race down her spine as he kissed her neck, but she enjoyed having him so close. His rubbing her palm felt oddly good against the empty soreness of her body. "I like the idea of just... being together. Stay human, though, please." Arryn adjusted the blankets slightly then looked at him for a few seconds, pulled back and shifted her position slightly before tucking her head under his chin, preferring it that way. Warm and secure - the best feelings.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn smiled as Arryn readjusted her position. He curled around her, increasing the contact and just generally enjoying her closeness. "Do you want to talk for a little while or do you want to try and sleep?"

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn shrugged slightly. "Up to you. I don't know what we'd talk about, and I'm tired, but I like being with you, and I won't remember it if I sleep."

 

[BookWyrm]

"I like being with you to love." Dayn gently traced his fingers around on her arm, outlining designs and patterns of nothing in particular. "What is somewhere you would like to go see? Not on work, but just the two of us alone. Does anything come to mind?"

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn followed his finger as he traced along her arm, though she'd lost it whenever it ran over a particularly thick patch of scarring. She thought for a few moments, then quietly said, "The griffin eyres."

 

[BookWyrm]

"The griffin eyres. I like that idea." Dayn slowly jumped from her arm to her neck as he continued to trace his finger over her skin. He made unintelligible designs around the back of her neck before coming around to the front, gently running his finger along her collarbone before tracing it up her neck to her cheek and around her ear. "Tell me about it. What is the view like? How high in the mountains are they?"

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn smiled, enjoying the feeling of his touch. She quietly recalled, "Up a path a few hours, but it's not steep, so they're high but it's not too high. Just a little path to the North. It's kind of nice. You have to see the eyres from a distance, otherwise you'll spook the griffins, though the path leads right up to the ledge leading into the cave. We found a nice vantage point a click off the path. You can see the whole valley spread out, like a green bowl almost, and then the griffins to the right. The young are funny to watch. One time a mother chased Theodas and Matthias away, but when i went back with them the griffins didn't really care. They got used to my team after a while, see, especially me."

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn smiled at the thought. "I can imagine. You have always talked about your love of griffins, so I can only guess that you were up there any chance you got." Dayn slowly slid his hand from her neck back to her arm before moving to her belly before slowly moving under her shirt and around to her back. He gently ran his fingers up and down her spine, first in a zig zag motion and then varying it up as he spread out over the whole of her back. "When would you like to go there?"

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn shrugged. "Whenever you like, though we'd best go before the snow gets too thick. A day that's not too cold... that'd be nice." Her shoulder still ached so she adjusted her position to accommodate it, enjoying Dayn's touch. Though, when he moved to her back, she couldn't feel too much of it past her scars.

 

[BookWyrm]

"A nice day hmm? Well, I can see that happening." Dayn moved his hand up to the top of her back before laying his whole palm flat before gently running it down to the small of her back before stopping. He let his hand stop there as he gently rubbed his thumb back and forth across her skin. "I have something I need to pick up in the market soon. Something special for you."

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn smiled. "Oh, a surprise, how sweet of you, love." She was too tired to be curious. She took his hand off her back and moved it to the back of her neck, hoping he'd do whatever massaging trick he had done before that had felt so good. She needed to let her sore muscles relax, but the wasn't happening on its own any time soon, it seemed.

 

[BookWyrm]

"Hmm?" Dayn smiled as she moved his hand to her neck, knowing what she wanted him to do. He gently began to work on her neck, slowly getting everything loosened up before diving into what she really wanted. "All you had to do was ask love." When he felt that she had loosened up enough he started into the long, smooth stroking motions, pulling his hand gently down her neck and onto her upper back. "There, is that what you were after love?"

 

[Dragongal]

"Mhmm," she sighed happily, feeling her body relax. Words were pointless and took effort, and just like how she'd told him she wanted the massage, she was not willing to put in the effort at the moment. She always got stiff after mana drain, and her muscles were already bad from everything else over the last few days. She cuddled closer against him as he worked, enjoying every second of it as she closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn couldn't help but smile. He loved the feeling of her arms around his neck and of her body pressed against his own. He gently held her before rolling onto his back, letting her lay on him so he could free up both hands to work on her back and neck. He was honestly loving this. Cuddling like this with her arms around his neck as he massaged her. This was nice. They didn't have to say anything, just being together was enough. Besides the fact that right now his hands were doing the talking for him.

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn smiled as he worked, letting her head lay against his chest. Every time it felt like he'd removed his hand,she found herself dozing off. She shook her head, then opened her eyes to look at Dayn, and brought one hand up to lovingly rub his cheek with her thumb, before returning her hand to its position behind his neck. She didn't want to fall asleep, but it was getting increasingly harder for her to stay awake .

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn leaned his head into her hand, smiling as she rubbed his cheek. He had been taking his time working on her back, and he was in no rush to finish. He figured by how Arryn was enjoying herself that she wasn't wanting it to stop either. "Feeling better?"

 

[Dragongal]

"Mhm," she replied quietly, trying not to fall asleep. She glanced up with him, silently asking permission to sleep. She didn't want to sleep, but she couldn't stay awake.

 

[BookWyrm]

Dayn gave her a warm smile as he leaned in and kissed her. "Get some rest love." He would continue messaging her until she fell asleep, then he figured he'd let himself slip off as well

 

[Dragongal]

Arryn nodded and let herself fall asleep laying against him as he continued to massage her. It was nice, being safe and warm and comfortable with him. When she woke up in the morning, she wasn't as tired, thankfully. She didn't want to wake him, but she couldn't help but run the fingers of one hand through his hair lovingly as she nuzzled against his chest.

 

[BookWyrm]

His body had already begun to wake when the lightest touch began to bring him around. Dayn didn't have to open his eyes, he knew Arryn was playing with his hair. He smile slowly spread over his face. His arms had been wrapped around her already, so he began to slowly trace his fingers over her back, low enough to get past the scars and onto the smooth skin around her hips. "I love it when I wake up to a beautiful woman loving on me."

 

[Dragongal]

"And I love waking curled up with a handsome man who lets me." Arryn said with a smile. "How're you feeling?"

 

[BookWyrm]

"Better than I have for days." Dayn kept on hand on her back as he moved the other one up to brush her hair aside before getting brushing her cheek with backs of his fingers. "How about you?"