The Mates of Dragons

Silent Desires

"How many do the humans know about? Those that were inhuman that is, living in the city." He spoke into her ear. She was right against him, and he didn't mind it at all. You tended to forget how nice it felt to have another against you when you were without it for so long. Maybe he should chance something here, see how willing she was to leave those humans this time. It felt nice because it wasn't really a lie, she knew what he was but didn't seem to care standing there. She didn't fight him, wasn't tense against him like she wanted to run. Her essence seemed to meld into his and it was relaxing, stimulating almost.

"Perhaps twenty. They are growing more interested in where you stay on the mountain, they noticed that you were gone." Kendra warned him.

"I'm sure they did. Have you spoken to those who you have named?" He asked looking around the club, more than half of them here were drunk. Other half didn't really care or notice anything. Too concerned with their short lives and the drama they created. None in here were nonhuman, which was nice he didn't have to be so on edge.

Xerxes had been watching her most of the day. Hoping to get her alone to talk with her, the longer it took the more impatient he felt. After all he couldn't very well stroll right up to her and just start talking. He needed them to think that she was completely on their side, not that she had spoken to him and told him things. Maybe she hadn't said a lot as of yet, but she was warning him now. Not telling on all the nonhuman entities.

"Only a few, and the others knew I noticed them. I wasn't being secret about it." That was good, they would have warning. Xerxes inhale her scent for a moment and lowered his head. It was rather lovely in his opinion. Xerxes had the urge to just sink his teeth into her again. His mouth brushing against the pulse there, it picked up just a bit. He remember that taste, and it was amazing, his mind wandered a bit. Would she just let him do it? What if he just did it and to hell with asking. Just took, he truly contemplated it. The veneer of being civilized threatened to drop for a moment.

'You have an addiction starting.' Zani said dragging him back from his sudden consuming thoughts. Zani did not think it wish for Xerxes to indulge in that need right here. Though he also would not stop Xerxes if he wanted to feed, or even if he wish for more pleasurable things. Maybe Zani was also a bit tainted in the desire to see if this homunculus could be their other half. She'd have to change for them to know though.

'I can't help it, she tastes really good. You have your favorite food, and she feeds me like a human's blood does. Even better.' Which was true, he hadn't needed to feed at all for several days, granted he had taken a lot from her. Even so, with growing years his hunger would only increase. If he left the humans alive, while feeding, it took six to fill him. If he killed them it took two and a half, depending on wounds of course.

"You know it might not be out of the question to simply come to a truce with them." Kendra said pulling him from his thoughts a bit. Xerxes brought his other hand up to her hair. It was soft and smelled like her shampoo a pleasant smell. She was here right now. He didn't see why he shouldn't touch her as he wanted and indulge in the response. She if she had any kind of response, if she pulled away from advancement or not. Seemed like a smart move, not just getting information from her. Obviously there was a second more pressing concern as a dragon. Not a predator of man.

"You make a truce when you can trust the other side. They can't be trusted." Xerxes told her. She did not pull away. She didn't even seem to care. That was nice, just being able to touch. No enthrallment, no fear. That made his mind want to take from her again. Who was going to notice, she wasn't taken or mated anyways.

"They think the same about you." Kendra said and her heartbeat picked up dramatically when she suddenly felt the scrap of his teeth over her pulse. Not only that she felt a rush between her legs and her hand gripped his shirt. Whoa what a sudden sharp desire. The sensation also came from him. Something had very seriously changed from their last encounter. There was this subtle want in his energy a deep denied need that affected her. She suddenly didn't really want to talk anymore, she had other ideas dancing in her head. It would seem he might be feeling exactly how she had been moments ago. Alone, no one there and no one to kill the loneliness with. Kendra swallowed and found like her world was narrowing to just the being before her.