[1/15/18, 4:29:30 PM] Raptor: Konsa's heart jumps at that accusation, making him leap into his words. "You never had to order me to love you!" He insists, then stops himself, and turns away, ashamed. "Only... To act on it." He swallows. And sighs.

Words weren't coming as easily as he'd hoped they'd would. "My lie... Invictus," he mutters, looking at the rain soaked window. "I'm sorry I reacted the way I did. I wasn't expecting. Any of that," he sighs. "I need time before I give you an answer. I need to think about this, to let it all. Digest. The possibility has shaken everything I am to its core."
[1/15/18, 4:34:10 PM] Shinbeans: He's silent for a moment before dropping the pot holder onto the floor, his dark robes hanging down around his legs, only the fire light showing off his slender frame. "No...don't be sorry.." He swallows his pride. Knowing he'd overreacted. "I'm the one that jumped you first. But I don't know....I thought you would react more....differently. You always get so poetic when someone else kisses you..."

He turns to face Konsa finally. "I'm terrible at this, Konsa. I've no practice at romancing, outside of edict classes. How to be a Prince. How to walk like a Prince. How to talk like a Prince. Blah blah blah blah." He drops his hands. "If its not you...then it'll be some, sad princess in to many frills....that I wont love." He sniffs, trying to tuck it all in, he wanted to be strong damn it. Not a cry baby, always crying, always throughing tantrums.
[1/15/18, 4:47:16 PM] Raptor: Konsa can't help himself, he walks over to Invictus and takes him into his strong arms. The same way he's done a million times since Invictus was just a toddler. It was as if he belonged in those arms, the muscled brown skin warm against his sad and sulken shoulders. "We can learn together," Konsa insists. "I told you, like any other monster, dark thoughts are something to be attacked and driven back. But neither of us can fight this battle alone. I want to help you chase the darkness away, like you've always done for me." He pets Invictus' back. "And I'll chase those frilly princesses away too if you like."
[1/15/18, 4:57:55 PM] Shinbeans: He lets Konsa hold him, his eyes closing as he rests his face against his chest. Leaning heavily on him. "Its not their fault.." He hugs back finally. "I wanna go on dates too. Drink wine too. Eat dumplings in the garden. I wanna be kissed awake in the morning and hugged asleep at night. I have a heart and needs and life in me, just like anyone else...And no one else is as close to me as you two are."

He lets out a deep sigh, feeling drained, the rain stopping and the sunlight coming in at last. "But I'll give you time..." He steps back, wiping his face. "So go one. go talk to Eldrin. Then come get me tomorrow, I wanna go into the City and throw rocks in the river." He hunches his shoulders.
[1/15/18, 5:03:17 PM] Raptor: "Invictus..." Konsa sighs, his heart aching at the words in his head. "Are you certain it's Eldrin and I that you want?" He steps back as well, but keeps a hand on Invictus' shoulder. "You said so yourself, you haven't had a chance to get close to anybody else. What if we do this and you meet someone else? Someone who truly resonates with you?"
[1/15/18, 5:07:56 PM] Shinbeans: "Impossible." He waves it off. "I don't want anyone else, but you two. With me. Forever." He crosses his arms. "I don't trust anyone else. I don't care if a prince charming came riding into the kingdom right now to sweep me off my feet. I'd turn him into a chicken! They aren't very good at returning your affections you know?"

He walks around Konsa, grabbing the tea set and walks back over, setting it down. "Have some tea." He sits on Apollo's big chair by the fire, and crosses his legs. "I mean, this guy would have to be Kreegh level of charming. So handsome. Just like Kreegh." He points out.
[1/15/18, 5:12:25 PM] Raptor: "Kreegh does have a way with romance," Konsa admits a bit jealously. Due to the laws of their land they were allowed to marry more than once, but it was a mutual union. No one had two spouses; it was three people married to one another. And Kreegh happened to be one of five people married to one another, and was fathering children with his two wives almost as fast as his own parents had.

Konsa takes a cushion large enough to seat a bear from Apollo's bed and brings it over to sit on, on the floor in front of Invictus' chair. "Thank you your majest- augh, thank you Invictus," he takes his cup of tea plain, no milk or sugar, and drinks it piping hot right out of the mug. He sighs.

"It wasn't that I didn't see you as anything more than my prince," he admits at last. "It's that you're so much more than that. I didn't feel like I could ever keep up. Even if you were a peasant, I would still feel inadequate in comparison to your grace, compassion, and power."
[1/15/18, 5:25:58 PM] Shinbeans: He lifts his leg up, hugging his knee a little, his tea floating near him as he watches Konsa speak. "Yeah..Kreegh is pretty hot." He smirks, knowing that Konsa was always a little jealous of his older brother. The crown prince. Noble in his demon blood, he was a leader amongst his kind, and rivaled his Father in popularity and even in combat. It was well known that Kreegh had been the one to drive the Silver King from his throne and break his spell on the Kingdom.

Invictus didn't hold any grudge about that, if not for Kreegh he wouldn't have his dad. Just the way he loved him. Stubborn, a pain in the ass, but perfect to him. "See what I said about pedestals? You got me so high up there, Konsa, if I fell I'd break my neck. You need to stop! You have saved my life so many times. You call me powerful? What about you? You've saved me, and guided me. You taught me how to survive, how to be strong. You showed me that living in fear is no way to live!"

"If not for you and Eldrin, I think I'd have been a monster, more then even your blood could deal with. I mean look at me, I'm a Prince. I've never really known poverty, never really known loss. I get to eat what I want, when I want. I'm spoiled as hell, but....I know I can live with out all that, thanks to you and Eldrin."

"You guys might have felt a calling, but when I saw you guys training in the courtyard when I was little, I was drawn to you both. Like...perfect Knights right out of my story books. You looked so cool!" He smiles fondly. "Like superheros."
[1/15/18, 6:12:59 PM] Raptor: Konsa laughs gently. "Now who's putting who on a pedestal?" He shakes his head. Superheroes indeed. Some days Konsa barely felt like a paladin. This was one of them.

"Please allow me to admit," he says after another sip of piping hot tea, "I don't know what I'm to do with you as a lover," he looks up at the prince. "I never even considered it until now. I'm a stranger to love as much as you are, Eldrin was an exception that took me years to realize. And I've only just realized today that the emptiness in my heart was your love trying to call to me," he shakes his head.

"I don't know how much longer it'll take for me to settle into everything. I barely know if this is really what it is! All I know is that the idea of you being in love with me hurts in a way I can't describe. And that your kiss will haunt me for the rest of my life."
[1/15/18, 6:17:10 PM] Shinbeans: "The loves the easy part, you dummy." He reaches over and tugs on his horn gently. "You just keep being you. Keep being there for me, helping me, protecting me." He shrugs. "Sex is just a perk of a relationship, Konsa. Its not what matters. What matters is that you are there for someone, and they are there for you. The only thing that would change out of all this is you might get to see me naked for the first time...if you wanted too."

"Not in my Dads room though...I don't think he'd appreciate that." He laughs. And sits forward on the chair. "I'm just no good with the courting thing. I guess I learned to leap before I look from someone important to me." He beams at Konsa.
[1/15/18, 6:22:18 PM] Raptor: Konsa... Does not beam back. Invictus had already opened the floodgates of possibility by confessing to him and sitting down to discuss their mutual affections for one another. Konsa's mind had not gone any father than that AT all. Not an inch. But oh boy, things had gone a bit more than an inch. Several inches at least on his part.

Invictus had mentioned sex. Suggested sex. Suggested seeing him nude. Konsa's brain flatlines at the mere thought. Well, it was no mere thought, actually. As his jaw slacks and his eyes travel down Invictus' bare chest he can allll too easily picture that pale lavender body beneath him, untouched by scars of battle, night-black hair and wings pooled around him like spilled ink, as he pants and stares up at Konsa with loving golden eyes and his body heaves in bliss-

Konsa's face heats up so much he's surprised his ears don't start making the same sound as the kettle.
[1/15/18, 6:26:25 PM] Shinbeans: "Hello? Konsa?" He waves his hand in front of his face. Snapping his fingers. "Are you there? You like, completely zoned out on me there. You finished your tea." He reaches down and picks up the tea cup and sets it aside. "come on, lets get out of here. My Dads are spying on us." He stands up and walks towards the door, opening it.

"Lets head back to my rooms, we can chill around the fire in my sitting area. Elrdin can join when he wakes up." He walks out of the room and down the hall, hands in his pockets as he gives only a slightly evil smile that Konsa can't see.
[1/15/18, 6:35:48 PM] Raptor: Konsa is led blindly to his feet like a dog on sedatives, and only halfway down the hall does he snap back to his senses and remember everything Invictus had just said to him. Back to his room?! No, alright, just to talk. Konsa sighs. He can do this. He almost blurts 'yes my liege' before he realizes it's been many minutes since Invictus suggested leaving.

"Forgive me my pr- Invictus," this was going to take some getting used to. "My head has been out of sorts all day. I didn't mean to 'zone out' on you." They pass by a row of reflective windows and Konsa wonders if perhaps he's dressed too casually?

After all he only had his tunic and sandals, the gold leather of the footwear twined up his calves, the front and back of the tunic draped down below his knees, revealing his legs through the open sides, and a sash tied around his waist slimmed his figure to reveal his boxy shoulders. Not exactly the sort of garb one discusses paladin manners with their prince in.
[1/15/18, 6:40:04 PM] Shinbeans: "If you can't call me by my name, then just call me Vicky. You used to when I was little, and its what my Father calls me. Or just Prince, I guess.." He frowns, and pushes open the doors to his room, which was huge. Filled with old toys, weapons, books, a desk, a huge bed covered in hanging curtains. A fire bit impressed in the center of it, with cushions and pillows all round it, and thick warm blankets to huddle under.

Right before the open air doors that were wide open leading out to his own garden. That he'd first met Konsa in that day. He walks to the fire pit and drops down on a big pillow, and snaps his fingers, the fire picking up. Everything in there was dark. Black on purple and dark blues. The ceiling painted to look like the night sky, and magically enchanted to give off clouds and floating lights.

He had chests full of his old toys, and one very old looking stuffed wolf sitting on his bed that he still slept with, but refused to talk about Mr. Barks. He kicks off his boots, and lets the float away, warming his feet.
[1/15/18, 6:49:46 PM] Raptor: Konsa didn't mind the appearance of the room too much, he still held onto a few things from his childhood back in his room in his father's castle as well. Though his childhood toys were more along the lines of wooden swords, shields, other weapons, and a knee-high dragon made of folded paper that he was meant to slay, but the craftsman mistakenly made it too purple, and it resembled his grandmother as a result. So he'd protected it with his tiny 5 year old life, and to this day it sat in his room. A reminder of his roots and his compassion.

He steps into the fire pit and at first sits just a few feet away from the prince. "I will get used to it," he insists. "Even if we cannot be lovers, a respectful friendship depends on me not putting you on a pedestal," even though the thought was sour to him. He could worship and love Invictus. His father did so with Sunstar all the time.

Eventually he gets up and walks to Invictus and sits down flush against him, hips and shoulders touching. His massive wing tucks behind Invictus and closes in against his opposite shoulder, curling his own wings to his body, and enveloping him in a warm, living blanket. Konsa puts his arm around Invictus' shoulders to keep him close. "Eldrin enjoys this," he explains.
[1/15/18, 7:00:16 PM] Shinbeans: "Oh." He says, blushing brightly when that wing was wrapped around him, and that he was so close. And it was true, Mars loved Sunstar, and yet worshiped him, and Sunstar let him, because it was what Mars wanted. Not because he had too. Something Invictus would learn some day. "Respectful friendship." He repeats, despite the warm arm around him.

"Its nice..." He smiles a little, however. Resting his head on Konsa's chest, and the paladin could feel his silken hair against his skin. The Prince resisting the urge to live life in the fast lane, and does not stroke Konsa's bare leg. Even if he really wanted too.
[1/15/18, 7:03:30 PM] Raptor: Konsa felt the prince's silken head on his chest and it broke his heart clean in two. He sighs heavily and puts a hand to his face. "What am I to do..." He laments. "There's no turning back for me unless you push me away, Invictus." The more fantasies of being with the prince rolled through his head, the more he craved them, until he thought he would die if Invictus never kissed him again.
[1/15/18, 7:06:46 PM] Shinbeans: This perked his ears up, and the tips turned pink. And then he touches that leg anyways, because why not damn it! Konsa's words worming their way into his mind, he turns under that warm wing. sliding his hand up his leg, his thigh, his hip, to his stomach and then finally his chest. "Then I guess you'll fall." He whispers, giving a small smile.

His cheeks flushed, he leans in and gives him a kiss. This one gentle, not stolen, but given.
[1/15/18, 7:13:59 PM] Raptor: Konsa reveled in every last sensation of the strong sky elf moving against him in the curl of his wing. "I suppose I must," he gasps, feeling that warm hand on his skin. He swallows as it travels upward, and mercifully encounters cloth, sliding up the silk on his body instead. But his chest was exposed by the V shaped opening of the robe, and Invictus' hand once again finds flesh. "M-my prince," he gasps with lust and reverence, before he's kissed, and words are stolen from him.

He melts under those touches, like magma pooling weakly down a hillside in the night. When it breaks, he's shaking. "Please," he begs, "All I want is to worship you. With all my soul, all my heart. With all my body," he turns to face Invictus, his other wing shadowing him. "If you don't take me, or stop me, I'll go mad."
[1/15/18, 7:17:25 PM] Shinbeans: "I'm not going to stop you." He shakes his head, climbing onto Konsa's lap, and actually straddling him. Konsa was between Invictus' legs, they gripped his sides, his hands touching more warm dark red skin, pushing that tunic away from his shoulders, he leans in an kisses again. "I want to go mad too."

"I understand now....it makes sense." He sits back up, panting from the second kiss. "Konsa. I order you to touch me, ravish me. Show me what its like to be stretched out under you, and loved." He pushes his fingers into the others hair, his fingers lightly tracing the skin at the base of his horns.
[1/15/18, 7:27:56 PM] Raptor: Konsa was lost at those words and there was no turning back. "As you wish my prince," Konsa surges forward and devours Invictus' mouth in a kiss that makes him moan as if he's been stabbed. It breaks all too soon, but only because the intensity of it was making him dizzy. This was Invictus after all! Kissing him was driving him mad, let alone... Well he couldn't think of what was coming next. He would have to just let it happen.

But he could give it a hand. Or two. Yes, two handfuls of royal ass is what he grabs, holding Invictus flush against him as he stands up. He carries the prince to the bed, throws the curtain open, and spills him onto it. He reaches down briefly to flick his sandals open and leaves them on the floor as he climbs on top of the prince and pulls the curtain closed.

"I've dreamed of this," he gasps, looking down at the prince with his hair and feathers pooled around him helplessly. "For so long," he slides a hand into the open chest of Invictus' tunic, massaging his chest, feeling the skin everywhere. "Nothing will stop me from loving you with everything I have," he grabs and pulls the prince's sash open, letting the cloth slide apart and reveal his abdomen.
[1/15/18, 7:34:32 PM] Shinbeans: "Oh god." He gasps, laying on his back, robe falling open to reveal his long, slender frame. His pastel torso speckled with more star like freckles, he smelled like raspberries. Panting harder now, his body flushing, he lays there, his wings out, when had he lost...he must had lost his concentration, his wings out, free.

"You've dreamed of me?" He blushes even brighter, gritting his teeth by how sexy that was. To think that Konsa might have dreamed about him, dare he even think perhaps he touched himself? Oh gods, that was to much to think about and he had to slow his breathing down. "W-whatdo you do in your dreams?" He asks, voice shaking.
[1/15/18, 7:43:58 PM] Raptor: Konsa lowered himself onto his prince, slowly running a large, warm, and rough hand over that pretty speckled body. "What good is there in telling you," he breathes, lips touching Invictus'. "I'll just show you." He gives him another kiss, and then reaches below his own belt, into a pocket hidden in his sash.

He pulls out a small glass bottle. He'd dressed like this for a reason, he'd hoped to go into town and find someone to stem his loneliness with a bit of a sinful evening. But he'd found Invictus instead, so the oil within would be used for him.

Ah, something occurs to Konsa, and he pauses to rest the vial on the headboard. "My liege..." he pets Invictus' skin slowly. "Is this... Have you been with a man before?" He needs to know what sort of territory he's heading into before he proceeds.
[1/15/18, 7:49:08 PM] Shinbeans: He shakes his head. "No. No one..." The Prince flushes, feeling so good, even just from kissing. "But...I've...nn." He blushes brighter. "Used magic to...well you know.." He'd made himself toys. He sits up a little, hand on the others chest. "But don't let that spook you, please. I've...dreamed of this too."

He lays back down, and then snaps his fingers, and he's naked. Right under the other, for the first time in Konsa's life he saw his prince fully nude. Not just glances from a stream, or a towel around him after a shower at an inn. But fully exposed, legs spread open, arms to his side. Exposed even. Vulnerable.