[ it would be so easy to get lost in this, so easy if alhaitham were anyone else but himself.
but: he's built on reason. despite how intoxicating kaveh's lithe fingers feel running over the muscles of his back, despite how pliable he is underneath his hands, and how easy it seems to be to drag noises out of him the likes of which he'd never heard pass his lips before - despite all this, reason pulls him back like being dumped in a freezing bath.
his body tenses again as logical thought returns, indignant at the lapse in function, and alhaitham breaks the kiss almost jarringly, pulling back several inches. hands fall from kaveh's face and instead prop him up either side of the architect against the wall, still effectively caging the other in (although that wasn't his intention - the intention was simply not to touch the other in the interim).
he does look a little uncharacteristically undone - his mouth a dark scarlet from the kiss, clashing with his pale skin; a little lost for breath - but his expression is calculating, colder than it had been a moment ago.
the scribe's mind had finally caught up with his body. ]
- Kaveh.
[ althaitham's voice is quiet but oddly warning, commanding, emerald eyes staring at the other full bore. the look was a cryptic one, but so many of his often were. ]
Did you do that simply to distract from having to provide an explanation?
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but: he's built on reason. despite how intoxicating kaveh's lithe fingers feel running over the muscles of his back, despite how pliable he is underneath his hands, and how easy it seems to be to drag noises out of him the likes of which he'd never heard pass his lips before - despite all this, reason pulls him back like being dumped in a freezing bath.
his body tenses again as logical thought returns, indignant at the lapse in function, and alhaitham breaks the kiss almost jarringly, pulling back several inches. hands fall from kaveh's face and instead prop him up either side of the architect against the wall, still effectively caging the other in (although that wasn't his intention - the intention was simply not to touch the other in the interim).
he does look a little uncharacteristically undone - his mouth a dark scarlet from the kiss, clashing with his pale skin; a little lost for breath - but his expression is calculating, colder than it had been a moment ago.
the scribe's mind had finally caught up with his body. ]
- Kaveh.
[ althaitham's voice is quiet but oddly warning, commanding, emerald eyes staring at the other full bore. the look was a cryptic one, but so many of his often were. ]
Did you do that simply to distract from having to provide an explanation?