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The first time it happened, in the midst of battle preparations at Karthas, Damen had dismissed it as a momentary lapse. Laurent’s voice, issuing curt orders, and his own involuntary reaction: nothing more than force of habit, the instincts he had trained into himself, deliberately, in order to survive.
Nikandros had noticed then, and had let it go with the circumspect silence of a kyroi to his king. That was as it should be, Damen thought. It was not worth discussing. It was not even worth thinking about.
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22 May 2022
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Laurent saw Damen looking, and looked back; he licked his fingers, and gestured for a basin in which to wash them. There was one on Damen’s other side, sitting abandoned; Laurent saw it too, and Damen sat there, pinned by his gaze, and couldn’t escape the knowledge of his longing. To bring it to Laurent. To ease his long day with the simple gift of something that he needed, and that Damen could provide. To not move was torture, but the humiliation was in wanting to, and in knowing that Laurent knew it.
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And Stede likes Ed, here and now, with the fresh smell of the wind and the salt in his hair, stripped down to nothing but an emerald green banyan and the ink in his skin, climbing back into the bed.
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Stede comes back.
Ed does too. It just takes a little longer.
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The first time they have sex it’s in the back of Stede’s car.
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“When I wake,” Stede said, quite conversationally, “from such dreams, I feel like I really am that slug, and that it’s a great injustice I lived to destroy so many beautiful gardens and never even had the decency to feed myself to a hungry bird. And my whole crew knows it, and you as well, and the only reason for anyone to stay aboard is sheer hopelessness, some deep and primordial longing for death. That at least my buffoonery might entertain them while together we dig our own watery grave.”
He sipped his tea, primly. Edward opened his mouth and closed it again, then reached, dizzily, for his own cup.
“But it’s not true,” said Stede.
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