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She hadn’t realised quite how down she had been, quite how much she had missed her family being together, until they had all sat here, singing and laughing and just having fun. Not a queen or a king or a symbol for war…just seven souls from all walks of life, singing terrible sailor songs together.
The first chords played out, and Elara’s eyes widened. “You didn’t,” she gasped. “I did,” he said, kissing her knee through her dress.
“That’s my girl,” Enzo murmured, his powerful arms pumping the oars as he drove his still-clothed hips to meet hers. “Take your pleasure. Wring every ounce of it out of me.”
“You love it when I tell you how much I need you, don’t you, princess? I bet if I took my hand off this oar and checked, you’d be soaked for me, wouldn’t you? All because of my mouth, and it’s not even on you yet.”
She shoved him away for a moment, blinking her desire away. “I’m still angry with you,” she hissed. “So am I,” Enzo replied. “What are you going to do about it, angel?”
“I miss you,” he said, pushing his torso between her legs as he kissed her neck. “I miss you even when you’re right beside me. How is that possible?”
“Because our hearts have been bound since the moment we both took our first breath. Because this is the kind of love few ever get to experience. Because you’re the other half to my soul.”
“You’re shining, El,” he whispered. She looked down at herself and saw that indeed she was, silver rippling off her skin. It danced towards the water in her lap, where it swirled and mixed with the iridescent waters.
“How did I get so lucky, hm?” “I’m the lucky one,” she whispered back. “I thought love like yours existed only in the books I read. Yet here you are.”
“Here I am,” he whispered. “Finally, back where I belong. Finally home.”
“Your skin tastes like the night,” he murmured, groaning as he sucked hard on her peaked breast, earning a curse from Elara. “Look at how beautiful you are,” he murmured,
“My light in the darkness,” he whispered, his mouth finding its way to her lips again. “My beacon calling me home.”
“You know,” he drawled, kneading her hips. “I’ve been thinking about how far away you are from your throne with all this travelling. How a queen should never be without one.” He gave a wicked smile as he pulled her towards him. “I’ve made you a new one for the time being,” he said before lying back in the shallow running water. He gestured to his face. “Sit.”
He looked up at her, pinning her with his stare as she hovered centimetres from his mouth. His grin was rakish. “Let me show you how loyal I am to the crown, my queen.”
“Cruel woman,” he retorted as she pulled herself off again, his hands sinking further into her hips. “I suppose I could be a benevolent goddess,” she whispered, and with a twitch of her lips, she pushed herself down onto him until he was sheathed to the hilt. “Holy fucking gods,” Enzo gritted out as they both took a moment to adjust, panting heavily.
The craving, wailing need within her silenced, that final, final stretch of intimacy met. She was home. “Ride me, angel,” Enzo moaned below her.
“You’re so fucking perfect.” He pushed her hips back and forth with his hands. “Those hips, godsdamn. You’re going to make me come before I’ve even had my way with you. I can see every inch of your body shining for me.” He sat up, both hands embracing her, one at the nape of her neck, the other splayed across her lower back. “Can see those perfect tits,” he said before dipping his head to take one in his mouth again as Elara continued. “Those perfect lips parted for me. Show me, princess. Show me how much you missed me,” he said as he slipped his tongue into her mouth.
“My powers, I… Elara, I am fucking obsessed with you. Enamored. Something took over me, and I could not break away from you. As though I was sick, and you were my salvation. And then my fire broke forth, and the sunlight filled me, and I just lost all hold and grip on anything that wasn’t you.”
“How does it feel, to lose complete control?” he heard Oceanne whisper in that gods-damned siren voice as she continued to ride his cock, each meeting of their hips bringing Adrian closer and closer to the edge.
“Adrian,” she asked, her voice eerily calm, “what the fuck was Cancia doing on this ship?”
OH MY GODDDDDD
Adrian let out a laugh. “What?!” Elara took two strides towards him. “I asked, what the fuck a Star—the consort of Scorpius—was doing on this ship?”
I AM DYING THIS IS HILARIOUS AS SHIT
“I swear to you both I didn’t know who she was. She made me wear a blindfold when we…” Elara and Enzo looked at him in disbelief. And then Elara began to laugh, the sound hollow. “Oh my gods,” she said. “You fucked her? Blindfolded?”
SKDJXUWANAZJF
“It means my love, that I am the only thing keeping you in this world.” Enzo’s brow furrowed. “It means,” she sighed, “that I am the only thing keeping you alive.”
“You see, she goes by another name. It’s Piscea,” he said. “The Dark is Piscea. Known to you as the last Star.”
“Spires and instruments, charts of stars. They know you. They know you all. They’ve prayed to old gods, and now you wake. Stardust and blood and ties too loose. She bears serpents and gods. Holy monsters. And the whole of her is a half.”
IMPORTANT
Enzo wrapped both his arms around Elara and Eli felt a sharp stab in his chest as he looked at the two, so meant for each other, such a perfect fit.
Give eli back the wind im begging
He squeezed his eyes shut. The ocean was his. And yet she roamed in it as though it was hers.
He may have been the Sun, but it was Elara that was his source of light.
“You should be more careful.” Her eyes flew open. A demon towered before her, a red mask covering everything but the soft smirk of his mouth.
AH SHIT
Eli dodged the drunken crowd where he could, though that was in a sense impossible in a country quite literally dedicated to getting absolutely fucked.
this sentence simply deserved a highlight
A skull had been painted onto his face, his hair combed back and a sharp black suit beneath. He’d wanted to dress as the dead to subtly respect Elara, as a fuck you to the rest of the Stars.
i love him. loyal king.
“She’s with Sagitton.” Enzo cursed, setting off at a run. “For fuck’s sake,” Eli growled. “I don’t run.” Enzo sent him such a terrifying look over his shoulder that Eli staggered a little. “Fine,” he hissed before jogging after the Lion towards Sagitton’s temple.
personality pic:
“I’m Ophelia. The thirteenth Star.”
OH I LOVEEE
“When you and the Sun awoke, it caused havoc—not just through Celestia, but through worlds. I am no astronomer, but you are not just a king and queen of this world. You are a king and queen of the cosmos. And I, like the other Stars, am not from this world. But I brought myself here willingly, from one world to another, because something else awakened with you.”
shit fuck. shitting fuck. this will be coming back to bite us in the ass.
Enzo leaned over, kissing Elara firmly on the lips. “You sure you want to do this?” he whispered onto them. Elara nodded. “Okay,” he replied. “I’ll be with you the whole time.”
I AM SO FUCKING SCARED
He chuckled. “Angel, if you wanted me to die to have a taste of you, I’d hand you the killing sword myself.” “Then you’re lucky I’m fond of you,” she breathed.
“Now pour the wine over that pretty cunt so I can drink from it like a sinner begging for redemption.”
SIR
“Marry me,” he breathed, eyes open and void of any teasing as they regarded her. “Be my wife. I want to call you my wife, Elara. I want to throw you the wedding you deserve. I know it’s trivial. I know that our soul-tie is more than that. That we’re bound far deeper than just in ceremony. But the mortal part of me, the part that fell in love first, needs you in every sense, and what I need is to call you my wife.”
“So, Queen of Asteria, light in my darkness, Ruler of Stars and Skies, will you marry me?”
He looked at his angel now, and she was crying, tears of happiness streaming down her face. Enzo wanted to carve his heart out then and there to offer it up to her. He would do absolutely anything for his Moon.
“I’m not sure where home is anymore. Only that it’s wherever Enzo is.”
“I just… I didn’t think I’d ever feel love that way. That someone would want me to be theirs forever.”
ow
A wave of emotion engulfed her as she saw her moon low in the sky, and across, reaching into Helios, Enzo’s sun. The two were at a perfect distance from each other, gazing across at each other. And she felt so grateful at that moment, for this mortal form. For this ability to have a silly human celebration, to commemorate their love in ceremony. How long had she waited for this—this union between their two heavenly bodies? How many lifetimes had they chased each other to be granted this one simple act?
Eli tutted. “Why would I do that? I’m here to give you away.” Elara’s heart faltered. “What?” “You were going to walk down this path with Isra and Merissa behind you, and you need someone by your side. And El, that’s where I will always be. By your side. I was in a past lifetime, and I am now.”
ELIIII OH MY GOD
Enzo shook his head, finally grinning even as his tears flowed, and a golden glow began to shine from him. Leo gave a small wave, winking.
i’m so unwell please give them peace
“You are everything I have ever dreamt of,” he whispered. Elara couldn’t stop her own tears from falling then. “You are everything I never allowed myself to dream of having,” she whispered back.
“But then, you shone into my life.” Elara bit back a sob. “And you showed me…” She sobbed again, finding it difficult to breathe. Enzo squeezed her hands, tears brimming in his own eyes. “You showed me what I never thought I deserved. You gave me patience, knowing what we thought was my fate. You gave me comfort. You gave me reverence. You made me feel like more than just a princess with a prophecy. Enzo, everything you touch turns to gold. And you took a sad, lonely girl, who had no faith in the world or in love, and made her shine.”
Enzo took the book from her, his hands shaking, and flicked it open. “You annotated it?” he breathed. “How does a reader bare their soul, if not through which parts of a book moved them? You always wished to know what went on in my mind. Now you do.”
“We learned on this journey that one of my powers is bringing things to life. So, Elara, though you may not be able to wield your shadows, I gift you your shadow dragun.”
OH MY GODDDDD
She fell to her knees again, arms outstretched as the baby dragun bounded over to her, its little wings fluttering.
BABYYYY
