...This is fun. Not just the whole thing, because that is so fun, but coming up with creative ways to make it hurt. It wouldn't be if he weren't enjoying it, but he so is.
A choker of thorns around his neck. Thorns dripping venom.
Oh yes. She is definitely enjoying at least one of those ways. Probably more.
The venom can scale slowly up through various kinds of ants, until it can't go any higher. Don't ask her how she knows what bullet ant venom feels like.
She was already putting her hands on several locations on his body. She can start trailing blooms of bullet ant venom where her fingers touch, can't she.
(It's been a gradual development, but at this point it's pretty safe to say that the way he feels about her is describable as love. Not that he's thinking of it in words at this point, but the feeling is most certainly there.)
Edie's paying more attention to his nocioceptors than the subtle change in how he sees her at the moment. But she's going to notice eventually...
Oh. There it is.
"Ah," she gasps, her first vocalization in a good while at this point. Her mind explodes in a brief but violent burst of (itself and everything she's been doing).
Speaking of feedback loops—the increased intensity naturally has certain effects on him, one of which is a soaring rush of intense emotion, affection mingled with raw sensory enjoyment.
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At some point she is going to manage to wriggle out of the chain pants, too.
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...She's out of the armor, but she's still wearing fabric. She should stop.
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Let's see. Can the acid non-redundantly be on fire?
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A choker of thorns around his neck. Thorns dripping venom.
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The venom can scale slowly up through various kinds of ants, until it can't go any higher. Don't ask her how she knows what bullet ant venom feels like.
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She was already putting her hands on several locations on his body. She can start trailing blooms of bullet ant venom where her fingers touch, can't she.
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(It's been a gradual development, but at this point it's pretty safe to say that the way he feels about her is describable as love. Not that he's thinking of it in words at this point, but the feeling is most certainly there.)
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Oh. There it is.
"Ah," she gasps, her first vocalization in a good while at this point. Her mind explodes in a brief but violent burst of (itself and everything she's been doing).
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