Shadow Mountain beyond the point of no return

Upon feeling his chin upon her neck, she, too, began to feel something inscrutable—something she'd sensed before, though she couldn't pick out why. Perhaps she'd suppressed the day she'd seduced Mou on the daedra's orders; perhaps it was a source of shame.

But this wasn't.

She made a sound in her throat that was almost a purr, though it grew into a sigh as he pulled away. Do you feel it, too? Maegi asked, searching through the muddled emotions in his remaining eye. The lines of his face. She reached out, tentatively touching the scar upon his neck with the tip of her nose.