Vulgaris
He frowns when he feels the early quakes of her sobs breaking through her but he only presses tighter against her. His lips feel wrong every second they’re not on her skin. Vulgaris wants to pour all the strength he has into her and he tries his best to build her back up with his love, as if it could fill in the space between skin and bone. Before her, there was never a time when he felt weak. There was power in every fiber of his being and he never knew how to yield, to step back and surrender even when he could triumph. He never had to pick his battles.
But now he has her and Adna to think of.
Now there are reasons to come home at night.
Then she’s speaking and he’s listening to her every word. Words have never come naturally to him and he breathes a slow sigh as he tries to gather what little he can think to say.
“Leliana, I was alone when you met me. I have been alone for so long,” he says softly into the cradling warmth of her trembling body. There were bodies and sleepless nights but they never curled up in that void of his soul and called it home. They never cared to run their fingers through the tangled mess of his life and pick out the pieces they liked best. No one ever tried to kiss him back together like she did, and so he considered himself isolated. “Maybe if we were never broken we would never fit together.”
The thought sounds stupid when it leaves his lips but it’s too late to take it back now.
“You are my life, my salvation. I love you. For tonight and forever.”
He traces his lips across her skin until he returns to her cheek, kissing the trail that her tears have made down her face. Maybe he doesn’t deserve her but he doesn’t dare say it out loud. If she ever realized how much greater a love she could find, she would surely leave. Vulgaris is greedy for her affection and her touch. He wants to drown in the ocean of her heart.
But now he has her and Adna to think of.
Now there are reasons to come home at night.
Then she’s speaking and he’s listening to her every word. Words have never come naturally to him and he breathes a slow sigh as he tries to gather what little he can think to say.
“Leliana, I was alone when you met me. I have been alone for so long,” he says softly into the cradling warmth of her trembling body. There were bodies and sleepless nights but they never curled up in that void of his soul and called it home. They never cared to run their fingers through the tangled mess of his life and pick out the pieces they liked best. No one ever tried to kiss him back together like she did, and so he considered himself isolated. “Maybe if we were never broken we would never fit together.”
The thought sounds stupid when it leaves his lips but it’s too late to take it back now.
“You are my life, my salvation. I love you. For tonight and forever.”
He traces his lips across her skin until he returns to her cheek, kissing the trail that her tears have made down her face. Maybe he doesn’t deserve her but he doesn’t dare say it out loud. If she ever realized how much greater a love she could find, she would surely leave. Vulgaris is greedy for her affection and her touch. He wants to drown in the ocean of her heart.
" ancient language, speak through fingers. the awful edges where you end and i begin. "