Gabriel pov
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I felt the heat rise off of my skin in small beads of sweat. Despite the frozen weather there I felt the exhaustion weigh heavily upon my muscles. Celeste lay on the ground too, her forehead was marked by sweat with her own weapons laying by her side.
"Really…" She drawled, exhaustion apparent in her voice, "Did you have to go that hard?"
A smile stretched over my mouth as I stretched my arms in a cross-like pattern above my head.
"Yeah. I mean you offered so…"
Our banter reached back and forth. And soon after I found myself leaning at her side, letting her sturdy body sooth my own exhaustion. Celeste didn't mind. In fact she pulled me closer.
Even my head rested on her shoulder, with Celeste's own nuzzling against my hair. The moment was quiet and peaceful. Neither of us saying another word, basking in the warmth of the other. In the afterglow of our spar.
