Hushed Willows You're eyes shine as bright as the stars, look into me.

She felt it. The same fervor she'd felt with Dirge, Vilkas, Barracuda. . . Except this was magnified, as strong as the sun was bright. She could scarcely breathe in the face of it, and she gave into his ministrations with a shuddering breath, a fluttering of her eyelids.

Please, Lily breathed, and knew how different this was. Love rather than lust. A promise kept, instead of a glimmer of what could be. Everyone else had been fly by night, but Khali. . .Khali was hers, and always would be. Faithful and true. Their love so far had been deeper than flesh--

Which made these caresses all the more sweet.

Her spine began to arch, slightly downward, like a cat caught in a languorous stretch. The blackbird looked at him with a question in her eyes, a slight cant to her head. She was ready.