A young noble knight with his own ambitions

Obi was in a mood to get absolutely fucking wasted and /dance/. Sure, he had been able to leave a few times, but that didn’t mean the emotional stress he was under was less than Embri’s.

Though whether or not he would talk about what was bothering him was a whole nother ballgame.

Instead, after work, he approached Embri privately. “Wanna go to the bar with me?”

He was eternally glad when the day was over with, slipping away the moment he was finally allowed. 

When Obi came to find him though, and asked if he wanted to go to the bar with him, Embri gave what was almost a relieved sort of sigh. 

He’s surprisingly bored, today had been entirely uneventful, and while that was a good thing, it was also incredibly boring. Even more so because he’d had to play guard duty for Zen the entire day, since there had been some foreigners visiting the castle. Which also could be fun, but it wasn’t, because nothing happened, and he had just stood there the entire day, not allowed to leave or train or do anything else until they left.

Stunned, he didn’t quite know how to react. His cheeks burned and he beamed, pleased at the kisses. “You know, if you keep acting like this, I might start to think you’re falling for me~”

But before the other could respond, Obi leaned in and gave him a deep kiss, wrapping his arms around his neck.

Embri gave a pleased sigh as he was kissed, allowing himself to enjoy it more now that this was more than just a one night or week long fling. He leaned into it a little, deepening it further for a few moments, before he broke it.

“S-Sure…I mean, I mostly do it for some extra cash, but if you wanna be there I don’t mind that. You might get sick of it really quickly though, I go to the bar almost every night.”

Obi shuffled, flushed by the other’s protectiveness. “…Thanks….”

Embri’s expression got a bit more serious now, since their relationship was now officially different. “Yes, I want to go. I want to make sure no one does anything you don’t want.” It seemed that Embri took relationships seriously. And while he was happy to let Obi have his freedom, Obi was still his, so he was going to make sure he was taken care of. 

“Yeah…I mean…I can’t promise I won’t mess up this whole thing ‘cause it’s something I’ve never had, but…”

He paused, breaths a little shaky.

“I’d like to give it a shot.”

There was a bit of a flush on Embri’s cheeks when Obi actually responded, despite it being his expected answer with the way the conversation had been going in the first place. He hadn’t exactly been planning on dating so soon after arriving here, but well, he wasn’t really disappointed with the idea at all.

“Okay. I kind of like the idea myself. So now you have even more reason to tell people off if they try anything with you.” And of course, Embri could tell people off if they got too handsy with Obi at the bar or anything. 

Whoa, Obi wished he could sleep like that. He hadn’t been able to most of his life, due to spending it on the road like this…for him to be able to fall asleep…maybe he wasn’t on the road til recently?

Interesting.

He watched over the camp all night.

He certainly wasn’t in a state of deep sleep, but he was still able to sleep nonetheless. Though part of his relaxation came from knowing his own skill. That and knowing Obi was there with him too. It wasn’t just him by himself currently, so if they did end up with an intruder, they could be easily dealt with.

“…I like it, sounds good,” he purred, reaching out to rest a hand on the other’s knee and give a gentle squeeze. “Does that mean I can think of you as ‘mine’ too?”

Because that…

Made his heart swell a bit.

That question was a bit of a surprise, but well, given what they’d just agreed on, Embri was more than willing to take this a step further. “Do you want me to be yours?” Yes, he was asking what Obi probably thought he was, though Obi had brought it up first. 

“…Yes Sir,” Obi gave a sly smile. The more they talked about it, the more he seemed to like it. “…My terms are simple. Don’t make me call you Master, obviously, and that’s about it. I’ll tell you if something is upsetting for me…I’m trusting you to stop if it is.”

Which Embri didn’t know, but that was a huge thing.

Those were pretty simple terms honestly, and ones Embri agreed with fully. “I’d be more upset with you if you didn’t communicate such things with me. Communication is a massively important part of such an arrangement.” He smirked a little. 

“Yeah…” His heart was racing and he was trying not to get emotional. “Ah…I would be interested, if that’s what you want to do.”

It seemed interesting.

“Just one thing…don’t…make me call you Master…” An odd request, from someone that says it to his actual Master all the time, but…

Somehow, he was almost surprised that Obi was in fact interested. He’d been a bit nervous about bringing such a thing up, since it wasn’t really a standard sort of arrangement. It wasn’t too unusual, but still. However since it seemed Obi was interested, he relaxed a little, and gave a bit of a smile at his request.

“That’s fine. I’m more partial to ‘Sir’ anyway, and since it’s a common term used for knights, no one will know different anyway.” A small chuckle. 

He blinked, his eyes darkening a tad bit. “Yeah that’s…that’s important to me too.”

Very important, for reasons he didn’t want to go into.

“I mean, I like a lot of rough things, but…yeah, if you go too far I’ll tell you.”

Good, it seemed they were on the same page as far as that went. Though this was still a difficult sort of discussion to have, simply because not everyone understood such things but.. So far, from what he’d seen from Obi, he had a feeling Obi might be interested. 

He blinked and jumped a little, surprised. It was difficult to surprise Obi, so that was a testament to the Knight’s skill.

“Ah…a lot of sex, mostly, but…” His cheeks burned. “If it…turns into something more, I don’t exactly mind.”

It seemed this was going to be a bit more of a serious discussion than Obi was probably expecting. “Well, that much I figured.” And that was something he was entirely okay with.

Oh he definitely was looking forward to his shift being over for the day…and luckily, like Embri was thinking, they didn’t have long at all.

Not too long after this discussion, Obi jumped up into the window of his room, slipping in and stretching out on the bed to wait.

Embri actually was already back in the room himself, tucked in a little corner chair, being very quiet, so he wasn’t surprised Obi didn’t notice him yet. But he glanced up when he saw Obi come in and move to the bed. He looked somewhat pensive honestly.