The Amell Legacy: Transgressions

[Haliel Lightsong]

"Of course. We're still mortal. Our flesh and minds might resist the alternation of our nature, but our souls are just as malleable as any other mortal's soul,"she assures her dearest friend. "It's just a little harder for those deep changes. But we do have much longer to try, so that helps a little."

[Marian Hawke]

"Okay," she breathes, hands trembling. "Okay. So I can change my mind, if I pick wrong. That's -- that's good to know. Not easily, but when has anything ever been easy for me?"

[Haliel Lightsong]

"Isabela," Haliel says without thinking.

[Marian Hawke]

"...what?"

[Haliel Lightsong]

Blushing now, the paladin stammars as she tries to explain. "I, umm, well, I've been trying to-- banter and flirting. Learn how, I mean. I was just-- a teasing comment about how very Ciren she is about certain things. You know, easy?"

[Marian Hawke]

"Oh," she says, blinking. A smile begins to form at the edges of her mouth. "It'd be funnier if I'd said nothing comes easy. Untrue but funny."

[Haliel Lightsong]

Relaxing a little as it becomes clear that Marian isn't offended or disgusted, Haliel decides to keep the momentum. "No, if you'd said that, I would have gone with 'you come easy' instead."

[Marian Hawke]

"Hah! I don't know. I've done a lot of kink since you last tried. Maybe it's not so easy anymore."

[Haliel Lightsong]

"I would like to. Try again, I mean. I've been talking to Isabela, taking lessons." Haliel blushes a little but doesn't look away. "I don't feel lust or physical arousal-- and in truth I don't want to-- but I do feel pleasure. And I, ah, I enjoyed what we did at the Oak. And how you reacted to me dominating you." She hesitates and adds, "and to a lesser extent, you doing the same to me."

[Marian Hawke]

"Do you... want to try now?" asks Marian, hesitantly. "I seem to do better with girls than..."

[Haliel Lightsong]

The aasimar licks her lips, then sighs. "Yes, very much so. But it's not safe." Her eyes widen. "Not because-- I'm a twice sworn paladin and a pureblood aasimar. I'm worried that you'd end up Claimed despite your will if we did that now."

[Marian Hawke]

"Not unless you got me pregnant -- sex isn't one of Bastion's domains."

[Haliel Lightsong]

"Family doesn't just mean children," Haliel says gently. "And Astea is Love."

[Marian Hawke]

That hits her like a wave, and she doubles over, closing her eyes tightly as she braces against the deep-seated longing. "Sorry," she croaks. 

[Haliel Lightsong]

Haliel quickly flicks the cover back over the painting. "Marian, what's the next prime number after two hundred and, uh, seventeen?"