thesunandthesea | morning after.

That she can agree on, with another smile, and something that might be laughter, though it is quiet. Not for anyone but him to hear. Just a shy giggle she stops from going too far.

"No. We do - backwards." Most people are supposed to get to know one another, fall in love, and then get married. "Can... get to know each other?"

Good marriages, she knew, had more than just alliances and children, the ones that worked, that truly lasted, like her parents, had more in it than just the politics.

But she doesn't want to weigh it down with anything sad or pressing, just looking to know him, understand the circumstances they were in. "...Uhm. I - I..." yes that was how that sentence started. "I like- dancing. Like dancing and - singing. And - Up Bread?" There, that was a start, as she looked back at him, both to make sure she made sense as she tried talking in his language more and more, but also to say: his turn.

He dutifully listens, taking her words to heart, even as they put into stark contrast all the ways they're not normal people. That's not bad, per se, just different. But it's the last on the list that makes for a chuckle. Sweeney nods in concession.

"I like Up-bread." Inhaling slowly, he shifts, rolling her onto her back and rocking up on his side next to her. He takes a fist full of blanket, and with a flick of his wrist, he snaps it back to expose her. Sweeney's grin spreads wickedly.

Two fingertips start a delicate path at the dip of her throat, tracing their way down her chest.

"An' huntin'." They divert to follow the curve of one breast. His eyes remain fixed on the point where their skin meets. "An' ridin'."

Her hand slips over his shoulder as he rolls her flat onto her back. Though they do not linger as he yanks the blankets back, clear to her hips as she gasps, surprised at how casually and suddenly he does it. Then with what might at best be called a squeak she brought her hands to her face, hiding herself away.

It was one thing at night, the candlelight was forgiving. But another in the morning as she felt his gaze run over her, and followed it as she spread her fingers enough to peak between them. Watching him, watch her. All her body and it's reactions on display, pale skin, a freckle here and there, and the red marks his attentions had left on her the night before. Nothing was hiding now. What if he did not like her in the daylight?

The thought doesn't get further as he reaches to touch her again. It raises goosebumps on her skin, feeling the tension in her limbs again, as her nipples peaked with the sudden cold air, and the way his brushes felt pinning as much as his staring where he mapped. Unsure if she wanted to stay there or squirm away, the way he travelled it seemed the hunting and riding he was currently interested in involved traversing the lay of her curves, not the field and forest.

"Like... hunting." It's a lame attempt at pretending this wasn't terribly distracting. But she tried. She'd intended them to talk, how was she meant to know that somehow she'd seduced him again? She'd thought he had his fill last night, but clearly she was mistaken. Had her teachers taught her wrong and asking about these things was an invitation to bedroom matters?

"Have one... hunting hound... come with me." She tried to take a steadying breath but it only had the affecr of pressing her full chest up into his touch - and it was hardly unpleasant.

Any concern she has as to his approval of her shape should be put to rest in short order. Sweeney's touch spirals idly towards her nipple. Unlike last night, which had be urgent pawing born of too much waiting, this is gentle and meandering. He wants her squirming. Well, he wants to be inside her again; getting her squirming seems the best path towards that.

"What is his name?"

Sweeney only waits a moment before bowing his head to nuzzle soft kisses against her shoulder and up the slope towards her neck, though he doesn't follow it all the way up. He lingers at the point where they meet.

"What do ya like ta hunt?"

With that, his thumb grazes over the taut skin of her nipple before he presses it between that and the side of his finger. It's pressure enough to hold it, but not so rough as a pinch. A faint stroke of him thumb encourages further sensation while he awaits her answer.

Squirm she does, the attention so slow and meticulous, it's maddening how he gets closer and closer. Feeling herself shiver, trying not to wriggle away from him. Not that she could as he lent over her, his lips joining his fingers like an instrument he was learning the strings of.

"He - he's called Eimantas. It means - clever. Because he's-"

Oh that wasn't fair. How could he make her feel like this? It was just hands on her skin! But she felt the moan slip from her before she chokes it down, that pressure was barely anything on her chest, yet her toes curled up. Her eyes scrunch close, pressing her hands against her face. "Tha- that - "

He asked her something, didn't he? She pulled her hands away enough again. "Deer. Hunt - deer." Please have mercy, he was barely doing anything.

Oh yes, that will do just fine. Sweeney tries to rein in the smile that grazes her skin. "Ei-man-tas," he murmurs, not all that concerned about the pronunciation. It just gives his mouth cause to move and tickle her with his whiskers. Then mercy she is granted. Well, in the sense that he releases her nipple and starts a mirrored line towards the other.

"We have deer. Red." The circling draws tighter as he moves towards his goal.

"You use a bow?" It seems a proper lady's weapon.

He caps the question with a catch of her other nipple.

"Yes," her back lifted to his touch as he finds the other side of her body after the brief respite. She pulled her hands away at last, instead knotting up tightly in the pillow below her head. The answer is all too enthusiastic to have anything to do with his actual question.

"- A - recurve -" her uncle had made it for her, taught her how to aim. But the details hardly mattered as she furrowed her brow, peering down her body shamefully as if to see what he was doing was really happening, that something so little was making her stutter her words. "I could not - bring it."

Fuck, it's so hard not to purr at the first word on her lips. It echoes as his 'hunting' and 'riding' had, things to be enjoyed indoors. Instead, he murmurs softly as his kisses start to divert down her collar bone.

Sweeney pauses and hovers. "I'll have a new one fashioned fer you."

That's the only reprieve she's offered before his mouth continues in a similar path as his hand had. By the time it's traversing the swell of her breast, his affections are wet, sucking things, like she's a sun-kissed fruit to be savored.

When he finally reaches its apex, he sucks her nipple softly, grazing it with his tongue behind his lips. The grip on her other pulls a bit more firmly in unison.

Her eyes shut, trying her absolute best to remember what he was saying and answer him, really, truly. Her hands twist, her knees pushing together tightly to do something with herself. What was she supposed to do? Last night had been hurried, for better or worse, to get the thing over with. But now he seemed to be taking his time.

At least reaction took over the rest of her confusion about what to do when his mouth found her breast. She curved, straining into his mouth as she reached for him at last, her body jolting. Her hands finding the base of his neck to pull him into her. She wanted to say stop, it was like - nothing else, she couldn't handle it. She wanted him to never stop, for him to go on and on. The hands that intend to tug him free end up clutching him close as it wins over. It spiked so hot between her legs , so suddenly, it made no sense, he was not touching her there, but it was like a ripple down her body.

The feel of her hands is like the song of a sharp scythe making the first swing in the ripe field; every bit of effort is worth it. Both fruition and promise, he's all the hungrier for it. Her and her Up-bread.

Sweeney sucks a touch harder, but can't maintain it when his smile cracks. Instinctively, he catches her nipple between his teeth, just long enough for him to think better of it as he tilts his head back to look up at her. It leaves the skin taut for a moment before release, like the bow string he'd promised her. His other hand eases the tension, but doesn't let go.

"You want I stop?"

He suspects that she doesn't; he just wants to hear her admit it. Of course, if she wants to cut things short, he'll abandon this course.

If only to regroup and try a different approach.

Pushing up on her elbow, she stares transfixed as he teases her skin. His mouth hungry like she was a meal he wanted every bite of. Let alone how he tenderly plucked at sensitive skin, and she whimpered to watch it, her heels pushing into the bed below, her eyes wide.

She shakes her head furiously when he pulls up, her chest rising and falling with her deep bracing breathes. The marks his kisses sucked on her skin blooming a deeper blush to the otherwise pink that flared down. Her flush staining from her cheeks to the tops of her breasts. Awash in the sensations, and that now more familiar way her body answered him. Embarrassing as it was, that she could feel that trickle of warmth fresh again, when she woke, before, she felt tacky and sore.

"Don't stop." It's panted between them, vulnerable as the night before, but more understanding now the wonderful things that could come from his attention.

How radiant she is, her skin flush. It makes him ache to be inside her. Not that such is concealed beyond the layer of blanket draped over them; his hard cock rested against her knee.

Sweeney sets back to his efforts, his touching and tasting more confident in the wake of her request. Eventually, his hand moves to brace on the bed so he can lean over her to get his lips and tongue on her other breast, the moist skin left to be tickled by a sliding veil of red hair and warm skin, clattering gold bringing the occasional speckle of cool metal.

The smell and taste of her are quite the encouragement, and though he fights to keep his restraint, his kisses seem to have more tongue and teeth, and the suck of his lips more firm.

She has more time to notice, more time to think about each thing, and there is no pretending in the light of day. If she would even want to. She had no idea he would want to play with her so much, lavish her so much. Granted her expectations were set in firm duty and gritty reality. Set up as gently as could be by her ladies, working with the rumours of the brutish warriors, they said it might all be quick and over, and she may not like it, but he would undoubtedly lose interest once it was done.

Not that he would devote himself to just burrowing into her chest, his mouth a brand everywhere it roamed, as if he could never have enough. If someone had told her that a man, let alone her husband, would want to play so much with what was usually just an irritation, or spend so much time doing nothing but kissing her all over, she might have not believed them. She certainly would not have thought it would feel like this, either, her skin on fire, somehow overwhelmed and yet in desperate need of more. All for what - playing kisses?

But sense clearly left, and it's not long until she's writhing below him, her hands alternating between pulling at his hair, or yanking at she sheets under her. Her knees falling open of their own accord, and that wet hot build more obvious now. Her voice a constant stream of little gasps, cries and pants, between each shallow inhale, the lap of his tongue earned the long longer moans, the graze of teeth shocked whines. It had hurt the night before, that she would not think to want it again so quickly. But the touch makes her forget what it had been, she craved him closer, to lie between her legs again, to chase that strange something from the night before that came with the pressure of his body on hers.

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Sweeney's prepared to split the difference. Unfortunately, it means abandoning her far breast for the sake of balance, but he tries to console both of them with a long lap of his tongue up her chest to the crook of her neck. He nuzzles her with Want, some small compromise to being up on her. Even so, she can feel his shortened breath on her skin where he sucks and nips her neck.

He rocks his weight back as it was to he free his hand again. The same two fingertips swirl briefly around her breast, then start their journey down over her abdomen. The pace is purposeful, neither rushed nor dawdling; he wants her to have the time for her senses to hone on the sensation and build anticipation for where they're going.

At last, they arrive, lifting enough to tickle the tips of her soft curls before grazing the very edges of the lips she's so kindly exposed for him. There's no pressure to suggest he's looking to push anything into her. Hell, there's not even enough to grind against.

She watches his hand move down her at a lazy pace. Just long enough to feel the anticipation work up her limbs as his hand disappears below the low sling of the blankets over her hips.

Her legs twitch, wanting to close them around his hand, and at the same time, fall open. A confused mix of sensations as she strains to arch into his fingers and have him touch more.

Embarrassment follows after, as she gets it, and realises it might have been the night before, but there is no mistaking that she is a warm, slicked mess between her legs for his attention. The touches he'd paid her made her already so aroused, sticky between her thighs even as he only grazes her. Her face burning with the realisation. "It - I - I'm messy, we - I should..."

The anxiety returns, worried and unsure. They should have a bath, something so she wasn't so - so - whatever this state was.

Her sweet fluster is good for the soul. Sweeney lifts his head to meet her eyes, and a devious curl in his lips cuts a dimple in his cheek.

"I want."

He shifts his finger back to the start, but this time, he slides in to part her, running the length without seeking a way inside. Sweeney does, however, make sure that his calloused skin spends the whole course rubbing along her clit. His gasp is soft, but noticeable, when he can feel how slick she is; how she coats his finger so readily.

"Yes. Mess."

Sweeney sucks his lip as his gaze darts to hers for only a moment before returning to her eyes.

"I want."

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She could not look away, not even if she tried, her eyes fixed on his - and she could see it now, so much better. He was so wonderfully handsome, mischief and brightness in his gaze, dappled in the morning light.

So there is no hiding how her eyes widened with sensation, then half close with a gasp, lips parted with the inhale and exhale as he began to touch her. Told her so certain that this was all to whatever plan he had, he wanted the mess? If he was sure then.

There she paws to his shoulder, wanting to hook him for another kiss. She could not handle him watching the pleasure that spilled across her, as he began to touch her more thoroughly, more like the night before. Openly lacking control.

He'd been ready for her to stop him, or to at least resign herself to the thing, frozen and not participating. Sweeney certainly hadn't prepared for her eagerness. Her kisses are welcome and answered in kind, though he has to be mindful to not twist too far over her, so he doesn't lose his balance. He has every intention to keep his hand where it is for a while longer.

Long strokes continue, reined tightly in control, lest he run off too roughly. That said, eventually, he parts from her just enough to get her in focus. His hand stills long enough for him to dip the tip of his finger into her. Not much, just so he can trace the ring of flesh while he studies her face for signs of discomfort. Or pleasure. Sweeney's guessing the former is more likely.

"Hurt? Still?"

Sweeney would like to fuck her, but if his finger is unpleasant, there's no way he's fitting his cock in without more tears.

It's not that it feels bad, necessarily. It's not the pain of the night before, sharp and tearing. But there was a pang, like a bruise.

Only now, she better understands just what he is testing. That he's being slow and cautious to her, to not make it do so again. So her hands brace to let herself adjust. Her eyes falling shut and slowly her breathe to try and will the tension out of her body, relax and let his fingers slip easier into her.

That compared to last night, it does hurt less. Sliding into her body with far more ease, not quite the ache and shove.

So she can open her eyes again and give an encouraging nod. "No hurt." The ache she could deal with, and she did not want to discourage his affection and interest so soon into their marriage as the second day. Especially when he was being so caring and taking his time.

At her assurance, he slips in to the second knuckle, but he's wary of her tension and breath. Again, there's no stroking, just a slow flexing, seeing if it's any better or worse. His hand stills and brow lifts.

"You not want?" He does, but he figures waiting now might be better for the long game. He can wait.

"Not have to."

Sweeney does his best to make her believe it. He even pulls back out, so she's not obligated to choose with him inside her. He leaves his hand rested over, cupping her with warmth so she doesn't have to equivocate a no with abandonment.

There is a little hitch as he slides deeper. To her surprise, it is not unwelcome, her body tightening pleasantly as he slowly tests her. Lets her get her bearing, and then, oh so politely, pulls out, and her eyes open up to look up at him again.

"Want," she supplies, but not all at once. This is nice, this slow touching, building and testing, it's not so overwhelming. "We go... slow?"

And with it, she tests herself, the feeling, with the memory of the night before. Her hips roll, a slow, careful press into his palm to feel the way the grind makes those pleasant spasms work up her body.

Slow.

Right. Of course. He can do this, he assures himself. That said, it doesn't help when she starts grinding. Ugh. Okay. Sweeney lets her go for a few moments before he shifts again. He gently slides his middle finger back in to the second knuckle, keeping unblinking eyes honed on her face for any hint as to her feeling.

Instead of leaving his palm for her to squirm on, Sweeney opens his hand to position his thumb over her clit. He doesn't rub or push, he just leaves his hand still enough for her to writhe on as she wishes, same as his finger. The angle is straighter, so she can sink down on it if she wants to, but he's not shoving in himself. Fuck, this slow thing is hard.

And so is he.

"Say if bad," he whispers.

"We stop." Sweeney tilts his head, his gaze fixed on hers, as if to will her understanding of his sincerity.

"Slow." His lips part and shut. "I not know. What makes that."

She nodded, and then let her eyes fall half closed with a soft sigh of enjoyment has his fingers find her again. Though compared to the rest of him, this finger was hardly as much, and for that easier to brush against. Turned to face him that little as she hooked an arm over his shoulder.

"This - this is good." She does her best to reassure him, with a fond squeeze of his shoulder.

Then she began to move again, it was just that. Slow. Her hips taking their time to learn to move. To figure out what felt best, how she could move fluidly. A little fix of concentration on her brow as she began to find it easier, better, a wonderful mix of both kinds of stimulation as she got it timed better and the first little soft sounds crawled out of her again, less concentration and a slow unfurling pleasure across her features as she relaxed into it.

It's what he wanted. Well, maybe not wanted, but what he'd hoped for. Sweeney swallows, trying to keep his focus. He wishes he could see the act; savor every shift of her hips and admire the glisten of her arousal left between. But the blanket keeps such things a secret, so he tries to keep his attention elsewhere.

First, her eyes and face, the flutters and twitches are something he craves, but the longer it goes, the more he wants to thrust into her, eager for at least some proxy for his prick. He's forced to close his eyes for a breath to rein himself back in.

When they open again, they seek hers, and his lips part to dare an unsure whisper.

"...another?"

The neighboring finger traces softly along her sensitive skin, not making any effort to push in; just hopeful to get the opportunity. If he's going to get his cock inside her, he needs to know where her tolerance level is. This would be one step closer, even though it's still not enough to stretch her the same way.

It's not so much longer it seems to become more fluid, more like it had been towards the end, last night. Her little puffs of air go faster, her lips parted in an unfixed enjoyment of his touch, the movement, until his voice calls her out of it.

Her eyes look up, heavy lidded with desire, cheeks pink still, and the little moments where she sinks teeth into her bottom lip to swallow her moan. More? Yes, yes, yes. This was good, but some craved more, the tension he had provided the night before she did not realise she had enjoyed. "Please, yes, yes -"

Until she gets it, and her little pleading cries break to a strong buck of her hips. Straining into the cup of his palm and have him press in further as her eyes close again, a deeper, longer coo of satisfaction crawling out of her lungs.

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