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    Thread: let the lamp burn
Post: let the lamp burn

backdated combo birth & breeding check Senka Melnik is not built for pregnancy. It's torn through her with the force of a typhoon, first the nausea and headaches, and then sheer exhaustion. At this...
Senka Redwood 1 58 04-25-2024, 08:18 PM
    Thread: you knew me in my spiral
Post: RE: you knew me in my spiral

Odysseus has never been big on his reactions; she supposes it goes with the nature of his profession, well-practiced subtlety that makes him attractive for rich, spoiled politicians to hire. In this m...
Senka Sussex 12 195 04-24-2024, 11:09 PM
    Thread: you knew me in my spiral
Post: RE: you knew me in my spiral

She doesn't need his smile to feel it—the way her words have him relaxing inch by inch, melting into the blankets like he is content to stay here as long as she needs him, as long as she wants him. Th...
Senka Sussex 12 195 04-23-2024, 11:56 AM
    Thread: you knew me in my spiral
Post: RE: you knew me in my spiral

His smile does something to her—not only the male satisfaction in it, but the possession written all over his face, embedding its claws in her skin. Augustine never fought for her, even when faced wit...
Senka Sussex 12 195 04-13-2024, 05:11 PM
    Thread: you knew me in my spiral
Post: RE: you knew me in my spiral

Augustine doesn't need to be the worst, she thinks—he just needs to be the angriest, the most determined. His deep pockets work in his favor as well, but Odysseus knows all of this as well as she does...
Senka Sussex 12 195 04-12-2024, 09:29 PM
    Thread: you knew me in my spiral
Post: RE: you knew me in my spiral

"You sent a bird..." Senka stares at him for a long moment, a combination of understanding and horror slowly creeping across her features. Tucking her chin between her forelegs, Senka throws a paw acr...
Senka Sussex 12 195 04-12-2024, 07:15 PM
    Thread: you knew me in my spiral
Post: RE: you knew me in my spiral

In the stark silence of the room, the door thudding gently into the wall is enough to catch Senka's attention immediately, though her reflexes are considerably slower to respond. One eye cracks open b...
Senka Sussex 12 195 04-08-2024, 07:23 PM
    Thread: you knew me in my spiral
Post: you knew me in my spiral

It's been four days. Four days since she walked out that door with no intention of returning. Four days since she threw away the entire culmination of her life without a single idea what she would do ...
Senka Sussex 12 195 03-28-2024, 01:38 PM
    Thread: a secret starting to rust
Post: RE: a secret starting to rust

"Right." He drifts away from her again, and Senka lets him go this time, leaning her hip against the edge of the bar. She's chased him for so long, pined after him, begged for him—but that naïve versi...
Senka Sussex 4 100 03-27-2024, 08:21 PM
    Thread: a secret starting to rust
Post: RE: a secret starting to rust

Senka sighs softly, watching Augustine return to the bar. She hates this version of him, the sloppy drunk who can't keep his paws off the bottle; it is the only version she is privy to see these days....
Senka Sussex 4 100 03-26-2024, 11:49 PM
    Thread: a secret starting to rust
Post: a secret starting to rust

She should've asked about the woman at the lagoon. She's a goddamned idiot—but what harm could it do, she'd thought. In what world would that same woman, scorned by Senka's now-lover, end up at her do...
Senka Sussex 4 100 03-26-2024, 06:42 PM
    Thread: the bottom of the cup is always dry
Post: RE: the bottom of the cup is always dry

Senka has grown to hate this house. It's too big for just her and Augustine, and she is too often stuck within its walls alone, wandering them like a ghost. Her moments of freedom are fleeting and sto...
Senka Rionna 5 143 03-23-2024, 09:04 PM
    Thread: Sugar Sweet
Post: RE: Sugar Sweet

It's an awkward greeting, to be sure. Senka normally has a bit more tact, but this place makes her feel off-kilter, both like and unlike herself. {{"It's nice to meet you, Gwydion. I'm Senka,"}} she r...
Senka Naiad's Lagoon 4 126 03-13-2024, 11:21 PM
    Thread: Intoxicating is the taste of victory
Post: RE: Intoxicating is the taste of victory

The sound of glass breaking makes her flinch, startled by the ringing noise in her ears. But then Augustine is there, rushing to her, dragging her into his embrace and Senka burrows herself into the w...
Senka Archives 3 189 03-13-2024, 11:20 PM
    Thread: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat
Post: RE: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth aga...

rated M for sexual themes She cannot offer him peace of mind—not when it comes to Augustine, not yet. Senka will not do him the disservice of making promises she has no idea if she can keep, and no...
Senka Redwood 16 354 03-09-2024, 10:16 PM
    Thread: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat
Post: RE: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth aga...

She’s caught him off-guard, though it comes as no surprise. This is the first honest conversation they’ve had, a lowering of their guard in some way other than the physical, and she patiently allows h...
Senka Redwood 16 354 03-04-2024, 10:06 PM
    Thread: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat
Post: RE: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth aga...

A soft huff leaves her at his answer—very nearly a laugh. It's precisely the sort of thing she expected him to say, a reassurance to herself that she does know him on some level, even if it is just th...
Senka Redwood 16 354 03-04-2024, 12:03 AM
    Thread: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat
Post: RE: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth aga...

In the silence that lingers, Senka tips her chin up to meet his gaze, and there is only an endless well of patience and hope that lingers in her olive eyes. It's foolish, how desperately she wants to ...
Senka Redwood 16 354 03-03-2024, 10:22 PM
    Thread: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat
Post: RE: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth aga...

"Ask." She doesn't. She can't, when his tone is so curt, his expression closed-off. This is not the same man who had dragged her into his embrace in the lagoon like she was the only thing he needed, l...
Senka Redwood 16 354 03-03-2024, 08:27 PM
    Thread: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat
Post: RE: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth aga...

Senka isn't certain what she expected, but it isn't for Odysseus to stalk off into the storm in silent expectation for her to follow. A slight frown tips down the edges of her lips, but she sticks clo...
Senka Redwood 16 354 03-02-2024, 10:58 PM
    Thread: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat
Post: RE: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth aga...

He comes out of nowhere, hitting her like a freight train and sending them tumbling end-over-end through the snow; she lands beneath him, the air rushing from her lungs. His growl vibrates against her...
Senka Redwood 16 354 02-29-2024, 09:35 PM
    Thread: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat
Post: RE: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth aga...

Wind whips through her fur, chilling her down to her bones, but Senka doesn't care; her heart is thundering, her breath coming in rapid pants. The drastic change in temperature has her lungs burning, ...
Senka Redwood 16 354 02-29-2024, 12:35 PM
    Thread: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat
Post: put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against...

This forest is confounding. She swears the branches are reaching for her, clawing at her fur, closing in on her—Senka tears through a particularly unforgiving patch of underbrush, and the world change...
Senka Redwood 16 354 02-29-2024, 12:53 AM
    Thread: Under your skin
Post: RE: Under your skin

Odysseus is right—Senka doesn't understand. She tries to make sense of it, the charge in the air that cuts through her blissful air, the snap of twigs and the shadow of a stranger disappearing before ...
Senka Naiad's Lagoon 8 252 02-29-2024, 12:20 AM
    Thread: Under your skin
Post: RE: Under your skin

rated M for smexy themes if you're not expecting it at this point then idk what you're doin here A year ago, Senka never would have found herself here—or plastered against anyone other than August...
Senka Naiad's Lagoon 8 252 02-22-2024, 02:33 PM
    Thread: Sugar Sweet
Post: RE: Sugar Sweet

Senka isn't confused when she finds herself here again so much as she is surprised. Perhaps the lagoon has unfinished business with her; perhaps she is meant to repent for her sins. Perhaps she is mea...
Senka Naiad's Lagoon 4 126 02-16-2024, 02:24 AM
    Thread: the rocks beneath my feet begin to crack
Post: RE: the rocks beneath my feet begin to crack

She likes the sound of his laugh—Senka thinks it might be the most genuine thing about him. The rest of him, she's certain, is a ruse, a carefully-constructed mask meant to throw off those around him ...
Senka Sussex 26 893 02-16-2024, 01:00 AM
    Thread: Under your skin
Post: RE: Under your skin

Senka has always loved swimming, but this—this is a unique sort of heaven. She floats languidly on her side, tipping her head back and watching Odysseus sink beneath the surface with hooded, glassy ey...
Senka Naiad's Lagoon 8 252 02-12-2024, 10:58 PM
    Thread: Under your skin
Post: RE: Under your skin

Senka picks up on the subtle changes in his demeanor, growing more alert when Odysseus tenses—she can feel it too, the prickle in the air. Nothing quite identifiable, just the sensation that something...
Senka Naiad's Lagoon 8 252 02-11-2024, 09:53 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

"Please?" he teases, and she nips at him again, greedily so. Odysseus knows exactly what he's done to her tonight, making her cling to the ledge and neither pulling her back up or shoving her over. Sh...
Senka Sussex 42 963 02-09-2024, 10:35 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

They are both too guarded and barbed for honesty of the heart, but it lingers there, in the words between the lines. It lingers in the promises they make to one another, the way they're drawn together...
Senka Sussex 42 963 02-05-2024, 02:37 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

rated M for sexual themes They are on a sinking ship, both unwilling to acknowledge it. The tear in Senka's heart will only lead to breaking his if they continue down this path, and yet, neither of...
Senka Sussex 42 963 02-05-2024, 12:46 AM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

It is the cruelest type of interrogation, with her at his mercy—of which Odysseus has precious little tonight. He keeps her coasting, burning, the high she’s desperate for just out of her reach; she t...
Senka Sussex 42 963 02-04-2024, 10:44 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

Maybe she should feel remorse for the damage she inflicted upon him, but she doesn't; Senka feels a twisted sense of vindication to know that she's left her mark on his skin, in his soul. She slowly l...
Senka Sussex 42 963 02-03-2024, 04:14 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

His hold relents, just a little, and she greedily sucks in that gifted breath. Her heart is racing frantically, blood rushing so loudly in her ears that she can't hear the ocean anymore, can't feel th...
Senka Sussex 42 963 02-01-2024, 08:46 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

She hits her target, like a viper striking, her teeth grinding into taut and supple sinew. The taste of his blood does not deter her, the burn of his glare does not deter her, the promise of his punis...
Senka Sussex 42 963 02-01-2024, 06:25 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

This game is their most dangerous yet; her adrenaline has never peaked so high, knowing what awaits her at the inevitable end of this chase. She could never be fast enough or sly enough to escape him—...
Senka Sussex 42 963 02-01-2024, 05:11 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

She may only have to look back to see him, but she doesn't dare. If Senka takes her eyes off the ground in front of her, she will falter—either in her footsteps or her resolve. Either option will have...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-31-2024, 11:40 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

That howl will haunt her dreams. Senka is out of her league on so many levels. She knows it, and she is helpless to stop it—she’s addicted to their warped power dynamic. When she submits to him, it...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-31-2024, 02:40 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

Odysseus doesn't answer her. Instead, he lets her unspoken ultimatum hang between them; he won't promise Augustine's safety, but he knows that compromising it will also lose him Senka and all that the...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-30-2024, 11:11 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

They are two suns, locked in a gravitational death spiral; when they collide, they'll both burn out—but the fire will be so lovely on the way down. Nothing else exists outside this bubble of space for...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-30-2024, 09:36 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

It's fascinating, the way time seems to slow—the way he freezes. Senka isn't hiding from his sharp stare anymore, and she watches the way his features change, the flickering of different emotions acro...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-30-2024, 08:36 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

Odysseus narrows his eyes; Senka narrows hers back. He has no more intention to back down from this battle of wills than she does, and she's certain that he's regrouping in the silence, trying to figu...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-30-2024, 05:14 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

She is avoiding answering him, and they both know it. Senka is acutely aware that she is playing with fire, only this time, she is not meeting him toe-to-toe. She is not challenging him with wit or wi...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-30-2024, 01:33 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

Odysseus doesn't say where they're going, and Senka doesn't ask. She feels foolish—she is foolish tonight, and the both of them know it. She has been impulsive before, even daring, but never careless....
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-29-2024, 10:14 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

She can feel the moment he relaxes behind her, and Senka closes her eyes for a moment, holding back her sigh of relief. She is not scared of Odysseus, no matter who or what he is, but she isn't certai...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-25-2024, 07:46 PM
    Thread: keep reaching for my hand
Post: RE: keep reaching for my hand

rated M for sexual content Senka is helpless to him. Somehow, she thinks she always knew it would come to this; from that very moment he'd come knocking on her door, looking for her husband, she'd be...
Senka Redwood 16 625 01-25-2024, 07:19 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

"Don’t be stupid, Senka, it’s not pretty on you.” Her lip curls, but Senka doesn't respond, refusing to give him the satisfaction of admitting that he's right. It's not pretty on you. Those words stic...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-25-2024, 05:39 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

Oh, he did not like that. Odysseus retaliates viciously, his teeth sinking into her scruff and eliciting a sharp yelp of surprise before his weight is bearing down on her, driving her to the ground. S...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-25-2024, 03:31 PM
    Thread: anchor up to me
Post: RE: anchor up to me

Senka barely even registers that Odysseus is not alone. Like it always does, the world narrows to just them; she thinks a wise woman ought to be scared of the look in his eye, but she seems to lack a ...
Senka Sussex 42 963 01-25-2024, 01:44 PM