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She cried out, and tried to twist into the pillow to silence her own sound

"Fallon!" she whispered with alarm

But Finn, arms braced, hair tousled, features taut, had a quick reply

"Daed, a sound that swept into her, and ignited even more exciteency of another wet, sloppy, liquid kiss, and the sear of his body within her own, and…

The hunger

He stood on the street, a figure as dark as the night, one with shadow and fog He lifted his head toward the night sky, and then his ar it The ti, and he would be rewarded even more richly for the service he had done

Ah… the ht of the day, the charade of logic and learning!

The fog swirled around his feet, blue in color, beneath the uncanny glow of the …

And there would be no stopping as about to be

He turned his gaze from the sky to the centuries-old house, there, in the midst of so many others, and yet on its own little hillock

They hadn’t thought to close the balcony door And though he couldn’t see, he could see, and so, he closed his eyes, and thought again of the power that was his As He had promised, all would be fulfilled Pieces fell into place, and all that was needed would be obtained

The tiain the surge of power, thinking of what that s he longed to do

The things he now felt, saw in his reater power He could not falter He could not allow the greed, the lust, and all that reater power

And he was sifts that ca with the…

Fear

He would serve, and thereby, knoard

He lifted his eyes to the sky once again To thethat swirled at his feet He raised his aran to say the words

In his drea He felt the pads of his feet fall upon the earth, and the feel was good Dirt, rich, ever so slightly darass, no stones, no sticks, just the feel of his bare feet and earth, and it was strangely erotic

More so when he felt the cool breeze that touched him, that seemed to wrap around him And he realized that the sensation was so powerful because he alking naked, and every e breeze, on the barren earth, was sensual

There was sound At first, he thought it was the air, the sound of it whirling around hi him But then he knew The soft, roup aited him, and he kneas he that they awaited, that they adored him, and were ready to fall on their knees before hi He felt the play of his every er, more powerful than ever before He could feel his blood rushing through his veins, the even sound of his breath, rising and falling with hisstill, and the words they chanted were lauds to him He came closer, and still, they were elusive, for they were shrouded in the soft blue round It was beautiful Deep, rich, soft… and yet si volatile and exciting beyond belief

He kept walking There were two at his feet He couldn’t see the and wild They kissed his feet, stroked his calves as he moved They were not the ones that he wanted, and he shook off the hold they had upon hi far ahead, an altar in the woods, and it offered…

The answer The release for the tension winding within hi he had wanted for eternity

His rationalhe wanted He knew he had all he wanted…

No A voice whispered at the back of his head that there was , he saw that the world had gone bizarre There were still people Chanting

Sooat ahead No… not a goat, a oat, half e chin that added to the look of a satyr The creature had cloven hooves for hands at the end of long, furry ar to hiht

He caoat was busy fornicating A hideous creature, but the woman before hi above the sound of the chants

Closer…

The invitation beckoned hioat, and all the people, es of copulation Yet, as he passed, they follohispering words of adoration, begging for his word, his command They ran at his side, they touched hiain, he was eers down his back, his ar it with the oil

And he kept hearing words, silent, shrieking, part of the breeze, the chants…

What you have waited for…

Centuries…

The hunger has grown and grown…

She will be there

They followed, they chanted, they threers They hissed words in his ears, then, words of what he should do, how he should take his prize And at last, with the host of de still, he came upon the altar in the midst of the forest

And there… what had awaited him

The woman He knew her, did not know her She was tied, yet surely knew she was the sacrifice, surely she gave herself up to the ecstacy and power that awaited, after all these years Closer…