Falling Apart at the Threads. (L'nuo)

[Rowen]

((E said I could!))

It had been a sevenday since Rekka had last been to L'nuo's room. Now she did not know if she wished anyone to be there or not. She paused at the door fighting the urge to just leave again but her eyes landed on her shoes that were falling apart at the threads. She didn't have time to repair them or get another pair, besides her shoes had taken near a full turn for her to feel comfortable in. She wanted her shoes back.

She leaned close to the door listening to see if she heard any sounds inside. She didn't know where Menith or L'nuo was, and she didn't want to bother looking around. The thought of finding L'nuo in the hall again made her stomach churn. She finally knocked after assuring herself she didn't hear any sounds. She looked inside before stepping in, her eyes moving over the ground wondering where L'nuo had put her shoes.

She remembered falling asleep on the browns arm, and sometime between her falling asleep and waking he'd removed her shoes. Where that had been she didn't know. She let her gaze travel toward the ledge they could be anywhere between there and L'nuo's bed. She glanced around not seeing the dragon in sight. She'd knocked gently not really wanting to find anyone. She walked to the ledge and looked around but still no sign of her shoes.

Back tracking she headed toward his bed her eyes on the floor as she looked around. "Now where did he put them? I still don't know how he managed to move me and get my shoes off. I didn't even notice I was barefoot til I was in my own room." Rekka muttered softly to herself as she continued searching for her shoes.

[E]

The laughter rang out, as sweet and colorful as it always was, filling the air around him with music. She was magical; her voice, her touch, those dancing eyes… they all made him feel alive. And that smile… How long had it taken him to get her to smile for him? Watching that smile spread across that face once again… and he knew instantly it had all been worth it and he would do it again without a moment’s hesitation.

A slow smile spread across the sleeping man’s lips as he dreamed. Unaware of the new body within his room, he shifted to a more comfortable position even as he shifted in the sand of his dream. As he dreamed, he pulled his maiden fair down beside him and held her close within his arms. Her smile was contagious and he couldn’t help but join in her joy.

[Rowen]

Rekka nearly jumped out of her skin as she realized L'nuo was in his room. Her heart beat sped up, and she took a step back before she realized he was sleeping. Letting out a quiet sigh she watched him shift and smile in his sleep. He must be having a good dream then... She found herself stepping closer her shoes forgotten for the moment. She'd seen his smile before, and every time she did she felt it pull her toward him. Every time he smiled she felt she should smile back, and on occasion she had found herself doing that, only he had never noticed.

Shaking her head she recalled why she was there and resumed looking for her shoes, finally spotting them under the bed she reached under and pulled them out careful not to disturb L'nuo. Straightening she couldn't help but look at him again and felt herself shift toward him. He was sleeping and Rekka knew she likely didn't have much time to do much of anything. This would likely be her one chance to find out if she could be brave...

Leaning close she was careful not to disturb him. Even as she drew close she wondered if she could do it. Watching his face closely she finally kissed him lightly shifting her aim to the side at the last moment. She couldn't do it. Rekka turned away shaking her head no she couldn't. "You're as flakey as a runnerbeast.." Rekka said softly to herself as she moved toward the door. She paused next to it to sit on the ground and change her shoes. Removing her shoes that were falling apart first, biting her lip as she did.

Her heart still beat fast but she forced her concentration on the task she was working on. Even though it was as simple as changing her shoes, she really did have to stop running into L'nuo. Rekka didn't even know what his reaction would be to find out that she had observed him sleeping. She had wanted to kiss him, but hadn't managed it properly. Others easily exchanged such social activity often, Rekka could barely manage to let L'nuo touch her hand. She really did need to work on that...

[E]

The woman known as Ashni searched his eyes, her joyful smile slowly turning into one of love and adoration. Watching her, L’nuo closed his eyes to accept her kiss as she leaned forward. Feeling it land on the edge of his mouth instead of square on his lips, however, he felt his dream world shake suddenly unsure of itself. Ashni, with her honey’d lips, never missed their mark. As he attempted to open his eyes to find his Ashni once more, he found himself instead adjusting his eyesight to the dim lighting of his own room.

Letting out a heavy sigh as the last of her scent drifted away, he slowly realized that there was a woman in his room and it wasn’t the black haired Ashni. It was a brown haired Rekka, sitting by the door putting on her shoes. Why was she in his room without shoes on? Lifting himself onto an elbow to watch as the grogginess of sleep slowly wore off him, the answer came to him.

L’nuo let escape a half sigh, half groan as he let himself fall off his elbow back onto the bed heavily. “Ah Rekka…” he said, his voice still sleepy but very obviously directed to who he spoke. “That was not nice of you.” Closing his eyes, he took a moment to stretch almost lazily.

[Rowen]

Rekka had just been tightening her shoes when he spoke she was so surprised she tightened her shoes to tightly and winced as she quickly loosened them. "Ah." Rekka kept her gaze on her shoes as she tried to finish lacing them up properly. "Not nice of me? I'm not sure I know what you mean..." Surely she hadn't woken him up with her kiss. She hoped not. He wasn't supposed to have woken up.

Rekka cursed her own luck as she made a knot of her laces and stifled a groan as she went to undoing the knot she'd just made. She bit down harder on her lip to force her concentration away from L'nuo. She let off on the pressure as she gave L'nuo a quick glance trying to tell if he had been woken by her kiss or not. Looking back down at her laces not wanting to knot them again. At least that's what Rekka told herself, maybe it was that she wanted to make sure he didn't notice any hint of what she'd done.

[E]

“Would you like me to make a list?” Stretching, he flexed his muscled and moved his joints starting from the tips of his fingers and working his way down his body to get the blood pumping again. Letting out a yawn he continued, “First, I don’t remember bringing you to bed with me, which means you let yourself in. Again. That’s not nice, in fact it’s quite mean considering you still have all of your clothes on.”

“And, even if I did bring you to bed with me, it’s not nice to leave that bed and be fully clothes before I wake up.” Lifting up his fingers, he pushed a few up as if checking off his list. “And finally, it is defiantly not nice to kiss a person on the corner of the lips. It’s quite a tease because its perfectly in the middle of kissing on the cheek to say ‘your cute’ or ‘we are just friends’ and on the lips to say ‘I want you now’.”

“So here you leave me, with a kiss that I can’t put into a category, you’ve woken me up AND your still in your clothes. Now you tell me, doesn’t that list constitute as not being nice?”

Letting out another yawn, he shifted the blankets to make sure that his own nude body was properly covered from waist down before putting his hands behind his head and watching the woman in the doorway.

[Rowen]

Rekka froze and blinked. All she felt was utter confusion for the space of a few seconds. Finally she felt a calm settle over her as she watched him, it was strange the calm. Almost as if she were watching herself from a space beside her. "And if you did take me to bed and don't remember?" She stood slowly as she continued to watch him. "If I did give you said kiss that has no meaning to you. What are you going to do about it?"

Her own words surprised her but none of it showed on her face because that calm hadn't left her. She still couldn't believe what L'nuo had said. Did he really think it was possible that he had bedded her and not remembered. Likely she wondered how many women he had done that to. It was not a pleasant thought to dwell on so Rekka found herself watching L'nuo wondering what he would say or do. It wasn't a good idea to play with L'nuo but all Rekka could do was blame him for making her feel the way she did.

[E]

The calm that drifted over Rekka was noticeable to L’nuo’s eyes, he had lived too long learning to read people and he knew instantly this was a calm he had not seen and it didn’t quite fit what he knew about her. Rising to his elbows again, he tilted his head to her questions, giving her a gentle smile. His next statement was not meant to be joking like the previous list, no this was to be comforting and truthful.

“I know I did not bed you Rekka, because I do not dream after bedding a woman. The dreams will not come if I…” Cutting himself short he shook his head to stop the statement and begin the next before too much was said about her. “And as far as the kiss, every kiss has a meaning, just because I cannot easily put a label on yours does not mean I will not figure it out.”

His gentle, truthful smile slowly cocked to one side and raised higher as he found his playful side poking through again. “Perhaps it was you simply missed. I would not complain to helping you practice your am, lovely Rekka.”

[Rowen]

He was playing. It was clear to Rekka that he was telling the truth, and she wished she had finished his sentence properly. There was nothing for it, it had to do with his dream. "You're dream seemed to please you enough." Rekka bent and tied the last of her shoe easily picking up her other shoes while she was bent over she straightened and eyed him before turning toward the door.

Her calm wasn't as calm anymore she felt her emotions slowly trickling back into her. None of them made her happy. He made her insane, and the frustration and anger rolled into one, she didn't bother to hold her tounge. "Even if I missed, even if I wanted your help with my aim I don't think I'll be asking YOU any time soon. As I recall you yelled at me last we spoke, and while you are figuring out what a kiss that missed means or how you want to treat me I think I'll find someone less confusing to deal with then you!" She turned then opening the door and leaving. He should recognize the gesture, he had left her last time. Let him feel what it felt like.

-End Thread-