Dreams Beneath a Starfilled Sky | By : DragonEyeZ Category: A through F > Forgotten Realms Views: 7598 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 18: Marked
Finally, after much arguing, the clerics finally agreed to leave Drizzt in Catti-brie’s care, and, happy to be together again, the pair returned to their chambers, Catti-brie half-carrying the drow.
“You need a bath..,” Catti-brie commented with a grin, reaching up with a hand to run it through Drizzt’s near-gray hair.
The drow merely smiled wearily, allowing her to guide him into their room. She gently helped him undress, his own fingers near-useless because of the wounds, and he was more than happy to accept her help to get into the warm water. Relaxing against the side of the tub, he let out a sigh, feeling the warmth loosen the ache in his muscles from his long crawl. Catti-brie undressed, too, and slipped into the bath. Resting the back of his head against her drawn-up knees so he would not get his face below the water, the human gently worked the grime out of his hair, once again turning it to its natural silvery-white colour. The drow sighed pleasantly, Catti-brie’s gentle fingers massaging his scalp making him relax up to a point where he nearly was falling asleep.
A gently stroke to his cheek brought him back from the brink of dreams, and he looked sleepy-eyed up at his beloved. She smiled, and gently told him to sit up so that she could wash the grime off the rest of him. He obeyed, and felt her starting to run her hands over his back, much in the same fashion as they had only a day ago. And, like previously, he relaxed into her touch, though this time it was to clean and not to tease.
Finally satisfied with his back, she moved around him to his front, maneuvered him over so he rested with his back against the side of the tub again, and proceeded to gently rub her hands over his chest. He sighed yet again, closing his eyes as he felt the familiar fires being awakened within him. She leaned in for a kiss, brushing over his lips, even as her hand ran across his abdomen. Suddenly, the memory of a scaled tail against his legs invaded his thoughts, and he jerked, breaking their kiss abruptly. Catti-brie sat back on her haunches, surprised, and looked at him.
The drow shook his head, all trace of desire wiped from his blood as the thought of the mermaids played over in his mind again and again. He suddenly felt sick, disgusted by what he had allowed to happen with himself, feeling it as if he was covered in dirt – which no amount of water would ever be able to wash off.
“I’m sorry,” he croaked hoarsely and climbed out of the bath, nearly falling over as his knees almost gave up carrying him, pulled on a robe and retreated into the bedchamber, sitting down on the edge of the bed, his face hidden in his hands.
He did not realize that Catti-brie had left the bath, too, until he felt a slender weight on the mattress behind him, and then a pair of gentle hands starting to massage his shoulders.
“It’s okay..,” Catti-brie whispered, then pulled him into a hug.
Suddenly feeling utterly hopeless, the drow gave in to his own feelings, turning around and wrapping his arms around the human in turn, buryhis his face in her auburn tresses, letting his tears of humiliation and hopelessness finally slip from his eyes. Catti-brie gently held him, rocking him as he had rocked her, and slowly, in whispered tones, made him tell what had transpired, bit by bit. Minutes slowly passed on to hours, as they sat and Drizzt hoarsely told everything that had happened, from his fear of drowning, to the pleasure the mermaids had shown him, and to how he felt about it.
Catti-brie merely listened, holding the drow close, feeling how he slowly relaxed as he told, sharing his inner thoughts. She was angry, true, but not at her drow – from what she could tell from his recounting, it had been a rape more than anything else. Looking at the dark elf within her arms, pouring out his heart to her, she wished she had those mermaids with her, so she could teach them not to touch her Drizzt aga again…
Absentminded, she combed her fingers through the drow’s thick, white mane that fell down over her chest as he shifted, laying his head onto her shoulder, still clinging on to her as if he was afraid to lose her if he would let go. She could not help but to wonder why on earth his experiences had had such a great impact on him, until she suddenly remembered his recounting of a similar event back when he still lived in Menzoberranzan. The realization struck her as a lightning bolt, and she instinctively tightened her hold around Drizzt, trying to
give him what ever comfort she possibly could…
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