a pirate's cove
Jun. 8th, 2014 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hylianqueenZelda had spent the past several days searching for a suitable door in which she could learn how to swim. Perhaps it would be better to learn in the indoor pool but Erik seemed incredibly confident in his skills to teach her and Zelda wanted to be by the sea more than anything else. She felt that this would make him happier too and that strangely was something she wanted to see; she had never been fascinated by a man quite as much as she was fascinated by Erik.
The door that was carved with a ship opened to a stretch of beach and a little cave with a boat moored outside it, a fine boat with large black sails. Zelda knew very little about boating but she thought this would be something Erik would want to see and she could hardly wait to find him and show him what she'd found.
She asked the desk which room he'd taken and was given the perplexing answer that Erik had refused lodging within the hotel. Strange, very strange. Still...he had seemed to like the gardens that she had shown him on his first day and Zelda took a chance that he might be there. She found him on the edge of them, set up into a camp beneath the shade of several trees.
"I've found something you might find interesting. Both the sea and a boat."
The door that was carved with a ship opened to a stretch of beach and a little cave with a boat moored outside it, a fine boat with large black sails. Zelda knew very little about boating but she thought this would be something Erik would want to see and she could hardly wait to find him and show him what she'd found.
She asked the desk which room he'd taken and was given the perplexing answer that Erik had refused lodging within the hotel. Strange, very strange. Still...he had seemed to like the gardens that she had shown him on his first day and Zelda took a chance that he might be there. She found him on the edge of them, set up into a camp beneath the shade of several trees.
"I've found something you might find interesting. Both the sea and a boat."
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Date: 2014-06-20 01:01 am (UTC)He hadn't been thinking about beds; he'd been thinking about the grass just beyond the sand's edge, but he wasn't crass enough to say it out loud. "Aye, any match ye make will have t'be for reasons that benefit yer realm." And she couldn't be spoilt for that match or risk her reputation ending in tatters and threatening her reign. He didn't say that, but he nodded to make sure she knew that he understood.
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Date: 2014-06-21 03:53 pm (UTC)"So you understand that my reasons for hesitation are not for lack of desire," she said, giving him a sad little smile.
"For I wish that I would be able to make my own choices about what I want to do with myself."
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Date: 2014-06-21 04:50 pm (UTC)"A fate shared by many lasses where I'm from," Erik replied. "Fer th'men as well as maids, though a bit unfairly skewed t'the men who're given reign t'their needs without repercussion."
He skimmed his hands up t'frame her face. "I won't disgrace ye, Zelda. Ye've got m'word on it."
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Date: 2014-06-22 01:38 am (UTC)"I trust you," Zelda said, turning her face to kiss his palm. "I just do not know how much I trust myself. It is intoxicating to have someone pay attention to me for a reason that solely has to do with me."
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Date: 2014-06-22 02:43 am (UTC)Erik felt the warmth of her lips burn through his palm. "Then we'll have t'keep each other honest, or stop the kissin altogether."
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Date: 2014-06-22 10:04 pm (UTC)"We will not be stopping the kissing," Zelda said primly. "So we will have to figure out some other way to keep my virtue intact."
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Date: 2014-06-22 10:18 pm (UTC)"Glad t'hear ye say that," Erik responded and cupped her face again and kissed her.