Amo Tu (AsraXFemaleCharacter)

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"This small scar on my palm." I said, turning my hand to the sky. "It's not a hole shaped scar like the thorn scars are, it's a different shape."

Death nodded along.

"Asra once traced it with his finger when I asked if we were lovers. He said it reminded him of what we could've been."

'Ah, curious.' Death motioned with her scythe to a grey door.

"Grey? I thought the doors were either red or white." I said, looking over to her.

'This one is special, you'll see.'

I nodded and entered.

*~{[Umbra sifted through Asra's magic books in the light of a dim candle.

She searched for one she hadn't already read for she'd been putting all her effort into learning magic lately.

Asra was in the kitchen cleaning up from dinner this night.

Each of the books she looked through were written either in Vesuvian or Romaniun, easy to read.

But she came upon one that was unfamiliar to her.

She lifted the book to the light, straining her eyes to read the inscription on the cover.

It was in a language she couldn't read, probably one of the languages Asra speaks.

"Hey, Az. I found a book I haven't read yet but I can't read it. What language is it in?"

Cracking open the book, she found there were more pictures than words anyway.

"I'll be there in one second, I still have to clean out the wood pile for our stove salamander." Asra said from the kitchen.

Umbra brought the lantern closer to the pages as she struggled to decipher what the pictures actually were.

Flipping the book upside down, she finally understood what she was looking at.

Two nude bodies pressed together in some sort of ritual?

Umbra had never seen anything of the sort.

She never even imagined two people being naked so close together that they were... connected?

"What book do you have there?" Asra asked as he came into the shop area.

Umbra flipped more of the pages back only to find other positions the nude bodies were in riddled accross the pages.

Asra leaned on the opposite side of the counter as she placed the book flat so he could see it too.

"Oh..." a shade of red dusted his cheeks. "I don't remember owning this book."

Umbra traced the curve of the woman's body then traced the connection to the man's.

"What are they doing in these pictures? Some kind of binding ritual?" She asked.

He looked up into her eyes. "Maybe a love ritual."

"I don't understand it."

Asra paused, looking down at the erotica then back at Umbra.

"Hmm. Did your ex-husband back in Romanius ever consider having children with you."

Umbra nodded. "After I got back from the war but... I'm here now."

He nodded. "This is what you two would've done to make a child."

"Oh, this is... sex...?" Umbra blushed, placing her head in her hand. "I never knew this was how to do that. The things I have to learn..."