＆ ᴵᵗ'ᶳ ᵒᶰˡʸ ᶠᵒʳᵉᵛᵉʳ˒ not long  ?

  ' I reckon they keep you hungry, as do mine.   and you hardly feed them, from the way   your desires skitter across your skin.   I feed mine, you know, all of my hungers.   I enjoy feeding them, as I will enjoy   feeding yours. ' 

he’s loosened his grasp, and she tightens hers before letting it go, slowly, and watching him with sharp eyes and a knowing smile.

' you smell of magic and long, angry nights   between sheets that are too cold and skin   too hot. ' 

a single finger runs over his lips, slowly, relishing the feel before exploratory fingers slip down a  regal chin, tracing the lines of his throat with  red nails. 

           ＆＆ CORRUPTION has SHATTERED       you, dearest ! organs  ＦＲＡＹＥＤ                        & veins CLUTTERED 【 a  PRETTY  thing,             if not BROKEN 】;; now CRUELTY                             has MANGLED your SPINE akin of                   FRAGILE glass TEARING onto your                      ROTTEN flesh ! you are a HOLLOWED         shell of pillaged WRECKAGE that REEKS                 of barbarous GREED & griping                        THIRST for scorching FLAMES to              WARM your FROZEN, little HEART          (  ha ! do you RECKON this ROYALTY can                            MEND you with his WICKED snarl of           TANGLED fingers ? even KINGS are                     BEYOND own REPAIR !! his DEMONS shall            MOCK thy PALTRY endeavors of ghastly                          FLIRTATIONS bleeding ‘pon CARMINE lips,                they are  ＳＣＲＡＰＰＥＤ  poetries                            HURLED away at WILL as he RELEASES you,                               gracile DIGITS trailing earthward             ).           ｗｈｅｒｅｖｅｒ  ｈｅ  ＴＯＵＣＨ， ｙｏｕ  ＢＵＲＮ                               ❝   & if i REFUSE ?  ❞.

he is closer now than before, her body tells her, eyes glinting with playful wickedness that she is now so fond of seeing. he challenges her with the first move, of course he does.

she had expected as much.

her gaze lingers on his face for a moment, watching, learning. 

' what do you wish me to do, then? ' 

a pause, she shifts her weight from one foot to the other, her wrist still in his grasp. still burning.

' how do I know you will not strike me where I stand for daring    to touch the king? ' 

regardless of her words, the woman reaches up to grab him by the chin with a grip of iron —- not breaking their eye contact, or her concentration. pulling him down to share the same breath she takes in, is simply instinctual, red lips hovering over his own —- her nails tightening against his skin.

' how do I know you’ll let me take what I want   because it’s what you want too. ’

                                  ❝   what i want ?  ❞.            （               ＆＆ a WHISPER, a  TEASE ）.       you BRANDISH thy poisoned   ＯＢＳＥＳＳＩＯＮＳ                        for  SQUIRMING  bodies  &  howling            MOANS, dearest, HUNGER has RIDDLED                             your DELICATE flesh whilst DECADENCE                   dwells in your ＲＡＳＰＩＮＧ  bones                     (  his DEMONS shall LAUGH at your         petulant GREED             they, too, are                 FAMISHED 【 do you not HEARKEN                         of their SILENCED begs & wretched             PLEAS ? 】 !!  they are WORN, you WICKED          creature, mayhaps foolish MONSTERS                            grow WEARY of DEVOURING abandoned          YOUTHS & fallen KINGDOMS at LAID his feet  ).                    &  ACCURSED hellions LUST for your            TASTE, a SPECTACLE true               SEDUCTION                          dawns in a MYRIAD of preposterous MILEAGES,                little  ＱＵＥＥＮ,  but this ROYALTY had long                           RELISHED  that word with  GNASHING  jaws                                & FLAMING tongues your MOISTENED                   mouth  would  NEVER  do                                (  now steel GRIP slackens, MINUTELY,               his voice HONEYED, & WARM, & ＤＡＲＫ                ).                  ❝   pray tell, what do you RECKON  ❞.                                        ❝   of my DESIRES ?   ❞.

❝You almost shot me! Again!❞

❝Hide your wives, hide your daughters, hell, hide your sheep!❞

❝I saw how you danced for them. There is no more need for that innocent act.❞

❝You’ll have to rip my bento box from my cold, dead hands.❞

❝Book? What book?❞

❝It’s all lies! Slander I say!❞

❝So after we were finished, he reached for his phone and began to play Candy Crush.❞

❝You owe me. I mean really owe me.❞

❝Stop it, you’re being even more rude than usual.❞

❝The cold and I don’t mix.❞

❝You look like you were fucked thoroughly last night. Was it worth it?❞

❝I had sex behind the court house.❞

❝Public sex is the best kind of sex next to make up, angry sex.❞

❝They hold you to a different standard because you are not some peasant roaming the streets. You are royalty.❞

❝If you are going to dance, at least pretend you can dance well.❞

❝You have far too much darkness within your heart. You will not be able to enter this place.❞

❝If, for example, you are alive at the bottom of the sea, I shall cut off my two legs and become a fish.❞

❝I want to fall asleep while embraced.❞

❝I once believed long ago that I could wish upon a star and my dreams will come true. Now I know such things are false.❞

❝I will savor the day I can watch you fall.❞

❝I will hunt you down & I will not show mercy.❞

❝There is little we can do. The rot has begun to set in.❞

❝You can keep your little princess in her proper little place. But if she follows all your orders, does exactly what she’s told? She will never ever grow up, she will only grow old.❞

❝Good deed? You so called good deed sentenced him to death.❞

❝That child will do whatever it takes to survive ; I suggest you do the same.❞

❝I am the Queen/King & I demand respect.❞

❝You will find me at the corner of 5th avenue & 57th street.❞

❝Girls don’t want smelly boys. They want chocolate, pretty shoes, and a good fuck every week.❞

❝I want you to break me with your own hands.❞

❝Have you stepped into your own trap, my lord? Any evidence you have against me, you yourself bought and paid for. Do you now begin to believe it?❞

❝Why must you leave a king to follow you? Why not a QUEEN?❞

❝It is true. I was unfaithful to you with all of them. With half your court. With soldiers of your guard, with grooms, with stablehands. Look for the rest of your life at every man that ever knew me and wonder if I didn’t find him a better man than you!❞

❝ I have a little neck.❞

❝You make love as you eat, with a great deal of noise and no subtlety!❞

❝Will you not kiss your daughter?❞

❝She has the face of a simpering sheep. And the manners. But not the morals. I don’t want her near me.❞

❝How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library?❞

❝You have such bony knees.❞

❝Queens. Queens. Strip them naked as any other woman, they are no longer queens.❞

❝I will not be told where I can go and where I cannot go!❞

❝The King has asked for me?❞

❝Even in carnal matters?❞

❝I shall not go the way of my sister!❞

❝Power is as exciting as love, I discover.❞

❝And who has more power than our dearest king/queen?❞

❝Touch her, and I’ll have her sent from court.❞

❝Mind your tongue, or I’ll have you sent from court.❞

❝I ORDER you.❞

❝…I think I’m a good person. I think there’s good in everyone.❞

❝I see these kids I’ve known all my life and wonder: What happened?❞

❝Remember those days when we were singing and clapping, happy and napping, baking cookies, eating paste?❞

' I am, maybe you’re just being difficult on purpose.   and certainly, I can’t force you to do anything. if   you don’t want to be seduced, I won’t be able to   change a stubborn king’s mind. I can only offer   a taste of what is to come if he plays the game.   and that’s what this is, isn’t it, a game between   the two of us? to see who will bend first. to see   which of us will be begging for mercy, and which   of us will refuse to give it. ' 

she reaches out, sharp nails catching on the skin of his jaw and she is still smiling as if she is ready to sink her teeth into him.

                 ＆＆ now you BID such TWISTED games                                       your TREMBLING fingers WEAVE,                             a paltry HOAX beckoning SHATTERED kings             with TARNISHED thrones to PLAY a fiddled          BATTLE of desperate  ENTICEMENTS  &  wanton  Ｌ Ｕ Ｒ Ｅ Ｓ              (  you are HOLLOW, he KNOWS         you          FOSTER delightful ＣＯＲＲＵＰＴＩＯＮ along                           your DUSTY spine & QUAVERING hipbones  ).             oh indeed, you ACHE !  you  Ｌ Ｕ Ｓ Ｔ & ＢＬＥＥＤ                      for this ROYALTY to QUELL thy                  maddening DESOLATION & stifled MOANS;; it is           he  you  DESIRE,  you YEARN  &  Ｃ Ｏ Ｖ Ｅ Ｔ             （ he SMILES whilst SNARING your HAND ;;                            his touch SEARING your FLESH,                            ．．．&  you  Ｂ Ｕ Ｒ Ｎ  ).                       ❝   i DEMUR  petty  WORDS  ❞.                     ❝                               if all you do is SPEAK    ❞.