FLINCH

Written on October 31, 2021 (♏︎︎)

Author's Notes: Written for Whumptober 2021 for prompt No. 31: Just a Hurt & Comfort (Trauma).

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Ovelia never asked where the scars came from; so much burn-warped flesh would have an origin one couldn't simply ask after. The closest she came was in moments of moonless dark, when her fingers would trace the ridges and valleys of his skin-- when she had the alibi of blindness.>

Delita never bade her stop, and she never continued long. In time, her desire became not for answers but for mastery--that there might come a night where he would bend to her caresses and be calmed.

Always she failed, and she held him shuddering when he would not slacken.

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