His breath caught. Titan had enough schooling in love and relationships to have an idea of what her words meant in implied language- or could mean. At the very least further kisses. It wasn't the sort of thing people tended to be plain about, and yet ...it was plain enough if he was picking up on it? The captain shifted, drawing his lips and the patch of his beard along the edge of her jaw to the corner of it where the bone led to the glittering ornament that dangled from her ear. Every strap and block sewn, faceted, grommeted felt pulling and tight. "We can stay a while."

The risk and reward didn't even weigh out in his mind, which furiously pushed thought and risen dark away in favor of everything about her from the softness of small, opalescent hair along the surface of her neck and cheek to the sound of her breath deepened by their proximity. The tone of her voice against doubts. She has a want of me. A ...very real want. What a wish, given or...and...granted. Has she ever? Patience and care, and for ten minutes, ten hours....the nightmare will fade away. I don't want to leave. I don't want to return to the Dark Kingdom.

Titan wrapped his hands over her hips to lift her and shift a forearm beneath her to be a seat, perched, so she did not have to crane for further kisses. "Until we are breathless."

Shazari