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Then I was part of the sky, a fluttering poppet in the wind, words rushing through my head.
I was falling.

“Without desire, there is only duty,” Tiras whispered, quoting me as I quoted him. “But sometimes our greatest desire is to do our duty.”

“I am losing myself. Piece by bloody piece,” he whispered.

I was sore in places I had never been sore and happy in ways I had never known before. The act of consummation, both strange and wonderful, had literally consumed me, and I was no longer myself.

My eyes were heavy, and my awareness hung on by the thinnest of threads, but I thought I heard him mutter. “I think I will keep you.”

His chest was bare, and his breeches hung low about his hips, making him seem almost more indecent than if he wore nothing at all.

"Run!"

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⚜ I've only ever read one fantasy (LOTR), so I'm very curious with this one :D