[mature] hunt or be hunted; mary

[Sinner]

there is but one rule
hunt or be hunted

The familiar hard-chisel features appear across his dark face. His eyes are hooded with accustomed stoic expression he always wears. Composing himself had become easier now. He didn’t need anything to hold him back to reveal his emotions or for a facial feature to give away what he was thinking. If anything, he had mastered to control showing any sign of his emotions or thoughts. It was a skill his father had taught him. A lesson he truly didn’t know how important it would be until he took the crown for himself in the autumn kingdom. And even now, it was all more important. Mary narrows her eyes at him quickly. He can feel the emotions boiling underneath the mask he conceals himself. It rages like the sea storm and burns like a wildfire. It hurts him, ripping every part of him in the inside. He scowls at himself silently and angrily. Sinner knew damn well he shouldn’t be feeling anything like this. He holds it all together. Fighting against the current of the waves the crash over him, drowning him in the inside. He chokes on the fire the lights him from within, inhaling the smoke and accepting every burn the fire gives him as it scorches him from the inside. It tears him from everything he knows, everything he has ever been able to fight. But he is too stubborn to show his sorrow, his pain for hurting her the last time he saw her. She hisses at him. Naturally, he accepts her frustration and the pain that fill in between the words and breaths she takes. The hound understands why she would come at him with such a fury. He made her feeling like nothing the last time they spoke. But she was everything but what he had told her. If only he knew just how to hold his tongue it could have been different. Sinner doesn’t accept it though. He could never let another know truly how wrong he was for something he even admits had gone too far. Stubborn perhaps it was, but he will never allow himself to fall beneath it all. But Mary has more to say than just being able to be in her own home. She couldn’t help but mention Valdis, and that draws even more anger within him. He has never cared for the relationship Mary and Valdis shared. It was never his place to be in, but it seemed this time it had gone too far. There was no turning back from whatever Valdis had said to Mary recently. Mary steps forward, closing the space between them. He doesn’t back down from his stance as she comes at him with the tensest and anger, he has ever seen from his co-ruler. She doesn’t turn her gaze away from him, instead she challenges him. She demands something from him for the first time. “Of course not,” he answers back with a strong tone, trying to hold ever bit of anger within him back from lashing out at her. “This is your home as much as it is mine. I will not tell you where you should and shouldn’t go in it.” Because it was never his intention to control her. If anything, Mary was free to do as he pleased, but it seemed he decided to control who she shared herself with. Had he been jealous that she allowed herself to be careless and sleep with more than one? No, he couldn’t be jealous. Mary was just only his co-ruler. Their relationship was strictly dedicated to the kingdom and rising to the top. He rolls his shoulder, biting his tongue as he stumbles silently over his thoughts at what to say next. What has Valdis done, he wonders for a prefer moment. Sinner keeps his gaze strictly onto Mary while he thinks for a moment. Even if he had been in the wrong, he would not back down. His muscles are equally as tensed as Mary’s. The hair on his back sticks up, and he can feel the anger boiling even more at the entire situation. “I never told her anything,” he says softer this time. “I would never tell her what you should and shouldn’t do, Mary.” Because Valdis had no place telling him or even Mary what they should and shouldn’t do. But the dragon-mare was not always one to back down from a fight. Each of them was both fiercely independent and not afraid to fight for what they wanted. It’s what he loved about both, truly.

Sinner

the king of sylva

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@[Mary]