Wheeling Gull Isle And basically I've gotta know

At his reassurance, warmth suffuses the girl, light radiating from within as a wide smile splits across her lips. Despite herself, a soft tempo of joy fills the air - her tail beating against the sand. 

Her starry head ducks, embarassed but pleased, at his praise - a flush of warmth tingling through her veins. Shyly, she presses closer, hiding her heated face against the giant's chest - vaguely abashed by her eager reactions. 

Something dark shivered within her; her mind subconsciously shying from the memories as her eye squeezed shut, pressing tighter into Daeg's embrace. 

Hunched, gaze downcast, she hunkered on the balls of her paws - auds flattened as he circled her. Her muscles screamed, begging release but his low taunts kept her quivering limbs locked like the frozen beams of a winter cataract. Faltering, falling to her knees, meant punishment - a word the girl had come to fear as much as her mate. 

Stiff, she lay unmoving beneath, pinned, trapped, encased. His fangs burrowed into the junction of her collar - the fae imagining darkly for a moment that he reached bone, vital meat, and ended this. 

A scream trapped in her throat, lips parted in unending, silent horror, all she could do was watch. Her stomach rolled in protest and she turned away with a recoil, throwing her gaze violently from the massacre of her father's Guard. A motion that would not do for the newly throned King of Icadearian; roughly, he seized her by the nape and hoisted her into the air to watch in spite of her cries of pain, like an errant child, like a ragdoll. 

With a shudder, she forced it away. 

"Don't," the exile pleaded brokenly, unable to handle this - the thought that he blamed himself. 

"They'd have killed us both," she reminds him of the impossibility of it all. 

"In the end, we're here - together - and he's dead," she whispered, her gaze drifting to linger blankly upon her own paws, the words shifting to a harsh rasp on the last word - a bite towards her fallen husband.