Sunbeam Lair Sometimes I'd like to die and climb inside you

she hadn't been at the emberwood - her scent instead meandered up this way and her scent was the only thing that mattered at this point. the only thing he could comprehend. he clutched it like a talisman tight to his chest squeezing squeezing kept him grounded

and up he went into the mountains, past the rock where she'd BETRAYED him

up up up and her scent grew stronger and Pygmalion could feel it in the marrow of his bones. no heart left, no soul, no brain, only a blind hunger that spurred him on. a brutish slavering beast, slobbering, trembling

he entered the cavern where her scent proliferated

drew in a great breath, let out a rattling sigh

Bhediya, he whispered, his first word in days - and his last.