For a while longer I lie next to him in silence, feeling the tickle of his dark raven hair up against my head and the fanning of his feathery wings beside my arm. Lying here with him in this strange sort of blissful tranquillity, the warmth of his skin upon my own, it almost seems as though the world around us could just… fade away.
"Sorry for being a dick," I mutter with an apologetic half smile, shuffling over to face him fully now, prickling sensations running over my legs from sitting still for two long. Rubbing the uncomfortable sensations out of my legs, I add: "I know I can get quite... unforgiving at times. And rude too," I add, twiddling my fingers with a little grin. Of course, it is all rather condescending to be apologising and grinning all at once, but with the seductive little laughs that Valerian attempts to stifle, I quickly find it is near impossible not to.
