Moonstone Quarry If this is what you call love

Although her sweet voice announced every move she made, Damien's subconscious was all there was to receive the information. Even then the effect of it was so strong that it managed to relax Damien's body enough for the sylph to be able to flip his beastly mass over. It didn't come without an unconscious yelp of pain, and the distressing grunting that followed her gentle movement over his damaged skin.

ghian, she'd called him, but Damien wasn't really there to correct her. Had he been awake after the fall he would have probably tried to pull himself up and dragged his body up to shore, where he expected Murgash to aid him like he'd said he would, but he wouldn't have made it far enough in such state. Half his body had been scraped in the way down, and his leg had lost it's place with the hit. Deirdre was, from this moment on, Damien's only chance for survival.