Six Sentence Sunday

Books of the Immortals – Water, chapter 2: Morgan and Kahnee. And yes, he's as passive as he sounds (and no, he doesn't feel passion, for anyone).

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"You are a heartless man," Morgan said, his love almost turned to hatred, after five years of relentlessly unrequited passion. Kahnee didn't answer, nor react.

Morgan contemplated his lover's naked body, the dark drawings on his skin, the oval face and long black hair, the eyes turned somewhere else, lost who knows where, but not ever with him. Morgan wanted to scream when Kahnee was so passive and indifferent to his outbursts.

"I'm hungry," he decided. "Let's eat."

They were in a waterfront tavern that night, and Kahnee followed him downstairs, docile as usual.

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I have a drawing of the two – but I changed the tattoos in the book trailer! ;-)