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    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

The orders issued prickled her with irritation, and it galled that Jai had little choice but to comply. Nothing in Nythadri’s demeanour changed, but it glowered like a furnace deep inside. Arikan didn...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 02-16-2024, 12:53 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

It was a helpless moment, and not one she was ever keen to relive as the seconds stretched by in fraught silence. But Arikan kept chains on his temper, and her intuition tested true. This time at leas...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 02-02-2024, 10:43 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

http://thefirstage.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ny_tk.jpg Nythadri “You’re enjoying the insight,” she said. Amusement touched the accusation, and she regarded his scrutiny with a smirk, but trut...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 01-25-2024, 06:27 PM
    Thread: Pancakes
Post: RE: Pancakes

Natalie didn’t spend long showering, but she wasn’t surprised to find him asleep when she returned. She cleared the plate from his lap, noting the bloody jeans with at least a little distaste. Jay loo...
Natalie Grey Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring 20 4,135 01-24-2024, 09:13 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

Honestly, she was relieved by the irreverence. Nythadri would lean into ritual if she believed it meant something to him, but for her it would only be another mask to wear. So the threat of his half-g...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 09-17-2023, 09:30 PM
    Thread: Pancakes
Post: RE: Pancakes

Jay pulled her in close, and any tiny chance of untangling long enough to answer the door was long forgotten. Hands ran the length of her spine, twisting into her hair with a voracity that both surpri...
Natalie Grey Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring 20 4,135 09-11-2023, 11:43 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

Jai looked like a man stricken. The tight emotion locked behind his tired eyes marked the path between duty and desire like he couldn’t fathom their coexistence, yet when he spoke through the crack of...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 08-12-2023, 12:59 AM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

Her gaze lifted as she watched him rise from the water. The breath quickened in her lungs, and if it was a wicked torment, it was a moment she lingered in without regret. The dim light shrouded a devi...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 08-10-2023, 07:05 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
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Relief loosened a knot in her chest when his hand tightened naturally around hers. The lights back to shore were slow but sure, and she was quiet in the captivation, accepting it for the solace it was...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 08-06-2023, 07:00 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

Nythadri skimmed the words in dimness, too tired to summon light. A list of broken bones: collarbone, ankle, low back, nose, ribs. Twisted ligatures. Wounds and burns. Internal ravages that blanched h...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 08-04-2023, 07:58 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

Of the King’s actual schemes, Nythadri did not know beyond guesses, but she would wager Kaydrienne’s public retreat had been tactical and agreed upon. Trista’s role had clearly been the work of months...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 07-29-2023, 08:52 PM
    Thread: Pancakes
Post: RE: Pancakes

He followed her through the park like a lost soul seeking the shores of home. Natalie had always taken his reticence for indecision, or perhaps reluctance, particularly after the casino. Yet sometimes...
Natalie Grey Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring 20 4,135 07-09-2023, 09:44 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

When he looked up it settled something vital in her, and had things been less dire she might have simply folded into him there and then. The world could turn a little longer without them in it, certai...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 07-01-2023, 08:04 PM
    Thread: Pancakes
Post: RE: Pancakes

She laughed a little. The offer had admittedly been more suggestive than he took it, though the way he looked at her then curled fire and temptation across her skin in such a way she did not think he ...
Natalie Grey Greater Moscow and the Golden Ring 20 4,135 06-27-2023, 10:12 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

Arikan let them go, though he didn’t look pleased about it. Nythadri bit down on the urge to fire a scathing retort at his final comment, but instead ignored him entirely. She led Jai to the room s...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 06-25-2023, 08:15 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: RE: Consorting with Enemies

She might have taken offence at his condescending explanation of the obvious. Instead, Nythadri was amused at what it appeared he had taken the time to glean from Talin about her, and a spark of it fl...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 06-18-2023, 01:40 PM
    Thread: The Point of No Return
Post: RE: The Point of No Return

[[continues at Consorting with Enemies (https://thefirstage.org/forums/thread-1494.html)]]
Natalie Grey Past Lives 21 3,582 05-30-2023, 09:26 PM
    Thread: Consorting with Enemies
Post: Consorting with Enemies

[[continued from The Point of No Retur (https://thefirstage.org/forums/thread-1432-page-2.html)n]] http://thefirstage.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Ny-av-2.png Nythadri Despite all words to th...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 28 3,318 05-30-2023, 09:23 PM
    Thread: The Point of No Return
Post: RE: The Point of No Return

She’d never felt relief like it when he stirred. Everything she had been afraid of had existed in that moment; the choice between duty and heart; the one threatened loss that would erode the fortifica...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 21 3,582 05-08-2023, 10:58 PM
    Thread: The Point of No Return
Post: RE: The Point of No Return

She watched because she couldn’t tear her eyes away. When Larnair melted Asad’s sword, she had not seen the tools Jai used to blunt the trauma, only the aftermath. Now she watched his soul bleeding ou...
Natalie Grey Past Lives 21 3,582 05-08-2023, 12:14 AM