archademode: (When you feel the heat)
Jᴜᴅɢᴇ Mᴀɢɪsᴛᴇʀ Gᴀʙʀᴀɴᴛʜ ([personal profile] archademode) wrote in [community profile] albinomilksnake2021-05-06 01:46 pm

RP: OPEN POST



I: pick a character
II: write a prompt or pick some visuals

poleaxed: static; angry; hand; fight (and once you're gone)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-13 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Jone ends up moaning into Gabranth's mouth, unwilling to let herself slacken, let her back arch. The uneven stutter of his hips makes it feel more genuine, lengthens the stretch-- she enjoys putting things off as long as she can, when she has the luxury of knowing she'll still have her ending. Gabranth seems determined to give it to her. Set to a task, and he's... perfect.

And as he holds her closer, she feels more and more wrapped up in it, the feeling of being wanted, unfaltering.

She turns her head, biting at his lip, breathing into his mouth. "Gabranth, Gabr- harder- can barely feel you-"

An obvious lie, from the noises she's been making, and yet, he is indescribably fantastic; she cannot resist the urge to pick and scratch, seeing how much she can steal for her own greedy heart.
poleaxed: sc; emb (took me in.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-13 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Distantly, Jone wonders if she's gotten him off with an insult.

The rest of her is dazed, sore and wanting, pressed under the weight of a man she has far too much affection for. This is going to end poorly, but that's almost a freeing thought. Knowing the ending means she won't be surprised, at least. There's no distraction of hope. Within reason, she can do as she likes.

She thinks she's be forgiven for snaking a hand down to finish herself off. It doesn't take much when she's sore and aching like this, she knows from experience. A stutter-stop gasp, and she moans his name directly into his ear, a gift apology for the previous insult. She doesn't intend to truly apologize; it worked, didn't it?

Contented, she lets the moment linger, sweat-soaked and tender. She pets his hair and stares at the ceiling, momentarily content in her victory.
poleaxed: static; angry; hand; fight (you can't come back)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-13 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Jone grimaces, and quickly moves his hand, gripping his wrist. They somehow haven't popped any stitches, but her previous injuries feel no better from rough handling. It's pain she can manage, even hide, with her body surely blossoming bruises tomorrow. At the moment, though, she's no energy for the act.

"I'm fine," she whispers. "Better. I might... bloody sleep."

She doesn't let go of his hand, bringing it close to her face once again.
poleaxed: smile; gent; static (on my plate.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-13 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Her smile is faint and tired, but nonetheless pleased. She kisses the hard pad of his palm. "You will spoil me," she murmurs, unsure if she's joking or not. "This is all I want."

She was never an ambitious woman, so much as contrary. She was doubted, so she bit back and rose above. That world invited more cold than she expected, more than she wanted. The fire in Gabranth warms her utterly.

Another kiss, this one to his wrist, and rather sloppy for it. He won't have to wait long; she's fading quickly.
poleaxed: joke; smile; shock; emb (give me something)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-13 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Jone murmurs in her sleep, faint and unheard whispers. When she wakes, he is gone, and night has set. She rushes to dress herself and change the sheets before the healers inevitably return. If they notice anything, their flinty gazes give nothing away.

Now with far more motivation than ever before to have her room to herself, Jone is a far better patient. She rests when asks, takes medications without question, and ignores any negative side-effects. She doesn't move from bed unless she is bid; she eats when she is told. She would be a model patient, if not for that impatient tone, the demand to be cleared for duty.

Accordingly, the commendation ceremony is... not quite rushed, but earlier than expected. Waiting in the wings, fully armored once again, she feels the weight settle down on her. It does not crush, it does not pain, but she notes anew how restrictive the barrier is, between her and the world.

Yet that has always made kneeling easier.

"Someone managed to talk the kitchen staff out of making this a dinner event," Jone murmurs, waiting for her cue, to walk and kneel and say nothing. "I ought to thank them."

Her table manners are still... lacking. Improved, but lacking.
poleaxed: static; gent; sad (into my head.)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-13 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
She'd tweak his ear, poke his nose, if she could. Now, seeing him without seeing him, she longs for solitude. She can have that later. She won't be driven to distraction by any one person, no matter her personal feelings for them.

(He is so very dear, in his wildness, his rigidity, his snarling refusal to heel.)

"Improving isn't improved," she hisses. "You can natter on at me afterward, if you'll join me."

There is the ceremony to start a the new session of senate hearings, rulings given, orders outlined, and then Judges dismissed in their ugly metal mottle to plan and rest. Whatever will be done with Videreyn may be decided here. Jone is excited for that, as much as she is to see Gabranth later, as little as she is to receive a ribbon or metal or kind word from a dying man.
poleaxed: static; angry; hand; fight (is no fucking)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-14 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Every day, Jone is brought to view new wonders. She didn't know about this wing of the palace. She didn't know the setting sun could be this color, that night could smell this sweet above a bustling city. She takes a moment to appreciate it, letting soft winds wash over her, before turning to Gabranth.

All lights are fair to him, a man made well in shape and form. If they were different people, would this be courting? If they were different people, would she be dead?

(In her mind, Bede's body will never stop burning.)

Jone's clothing is cut in a stern Arcadian style, or at least that's what the tailors told her. She had only asked for something you could fight in, and green. She likes green. She always has.

"The gilded weapons," she says, expression collected, before letting her head loll to the side, a joker's weapon. "Those are ceremonial, right?"
poleaxed: smile; (i cured my skin)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-14 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Jone cocks her head to the other side, pretending to think about it. Beneath the table, her soft-soled foot begins to rub against Gabranth's ankle.

"How often d'you have that replaced? Gold's a soft thing." She shagged a smith once. No, don't say that. "Wondering how often I'll have to see the blacksmith."
poleaxed: hand; joke; emb (we are so alone)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-14 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
No fun tonight, then. She gives him a swift poke under the table, her shoe hitting his boot, before retreating.

Jone mixes her wine and water again. Archadian wine, she's finding, is too strong for her tastes-- no, that isn't true. If she hadn't a care in the world, she'd drink it happily. But she hates the thought of getting soused on duty, and she is always on duty. She may not take the job as seriously as Gabranth, but she wagers that's because it's not physically possible.

"I do," Jone says, raising a glass to her lips. Admittedly, not every day and night. The stuff doesn't see use that regularly, beyond ceremony. Maybe she should. "Did someone set you to that schedule, or is it of your own make?"
poleaxed: joke (it ain't me babe)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-14 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Should I be jealous, Jone wants to joke, but even she can tell what a bad move that would be. Jone has no love for secrecy, but she understands why it is necessary, and has no interest in compromising either of them over jealousy she does not, truly, have. Further, Gabranth's obvious esteem for Drace leaves little room for jokes to begin with; she doesn't truly wish to see Gabranth's temper lost, and that strike may be too close to something Gabranth obviously cannot stand. Dishonor, indignity, things never to be leveled at those Gabranth holds in true esteem.

(If she is jealous, it is in wondering how and if Gabranth would defend her from slander that, in truth, would offend her none to hear. What a foolish creature she is.)

"And now you pass your knowledge onto me." Jone takes her watered wine slowly. "I wonder if my unluckiness is the luckiest in all the world."
poleaxed: gent; emb (i have)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-14 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
He says empire, and Jone looks down from the balcony on instinct. Empire, the thing she feared in her youth, and she looks down: it's just people. That's all Fedlhelm was, all Videreyn is.

It's all so stupid.

"I used to like that," Jone admits carefully. Her expression is the level, even thing that lives beyond the shores of her poor sense of humor. "Being a creature to envy... I relished it. But now it seems more distraction than glorious."
poleaxed: static; joke; smile; hand (of insane)

[personal profile] poleaxed 2021-06-15 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Jone eyes the food, taking care to slowly pick the correct fork. "I am more troubled by how to eat this... roll. Dumpling?"

She knows how to eat those with her hands, but is currently convinced that's the wrong answer in the strange game of courtesy they play. It would be annoying, if Jone did not love winning so much.

"I have learned not to believe in grand concepts. Better to give loyalty to people. The deserving."

She does not specify who is and who is not deserving. If Gabranth is afraid to touch his boot to her shoe-- as annoying as that is-- it is not a safe place to speak of deep truths. Yet they are unwatched, at least in this moment. Her gaze flickers to him, pointedly.

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