[It isn't much longer after the fire's lit that she appears from the forest.
It would be far safer for the both of them for Lup to show a little cautious restraint in these annual meetings, to hold back until she's completely certain they're alone, but ever since the fateful day of their first meeting, she's never been able to leave Barry waiting for long. Not when the time they do get to spend together is so little.
The naga slithers silently out into the open, his old dark cloak wrapped tightly around her shoulders, while she slips forward to close the distance between them with a few effortless curls of her powerful tail. Even in the low light between them, Barry wouldn't have a chance of missing the happiness that dances across her expression at the sight of him, the genuine brightness of her smile. She lifts her arms out from under the cloak in greeting, the bangles along her limbs and the dangling jewelry of her ears glinting in the fire's growing light.
And whether he's prepared for her or not, the woman launches herself right at him, with just enough force to send them both tumbling backwards to the ground.]
ii; S T O P M E
It would be far safer for the both of them for Lup to show a little cautious restraint in these annual meetings, to hold back until she's completely certain they're alone, but ever since the fateful day of their first meeting, she's never been able to leave Barry waiting for long. Not when the time they do get to spend together is so little.
The naga slithers silently out into the open, his old dark cloak wrapped tightly around her shoulders, while she slips forward to close the distance between them with a few effortless curls of her powerful tail. Even in the low light between them, Barry wouldn't have a chance of missing the happiness that dances across her expression at the sight of him, the genuine brightness of her smile. She lifts her arms out from under the cloak in greeting, the bangles along her limbs and the dangling jewelry of her ears glinting in the fire's growing light.
And whether he's prepared for her or not, the woman launches herself right at him, with just enough force to send them both tumbling backwards to the ground.]