She refused to submit to his thrusts, and in turn imposed the most tender horizontal thrusts, which should have appeased her lover's impatience. He, in turn, relented, but only for a minute. His impatience and domination resurfaced, and soon won the game.
They kissed hungrily, mixing heavy breaths with gasps and cries, sweating like the beasts they are. At one point, Garios brought his demonstrative hand down her slender back and ventured into her other hole.
The sensation of his fingers penetrating her made Diria jump and tense up. Astonishment mingled with pain and another sensation overpowered the others.
"Don't worry!" he reassured her, kissing her forehead, "I'm not going in there today. But I will one day," he confirmed without regard, "so I might as well prepare you now."
And the pain would be even more intense than she'd known losing her virginity, but perhaps the pleasure would only be greater too.
She hoped so with all her heart. And she was right to think so, since Gariod would be speeding towards orgasm on his way to this place.
She would come before him, inevitably, given what he was doing to her. But when he finally followed her into this timeless ecstasy, Diria bit her lip to the quick before biting his shoulders passionately.
Later, lying on the leaves that had finished burning back to their golden appearance, Diria thought again that there was something really bothering her.
She didn't know what, and she didn't know if she'd ever find out, but it stayed with her.
She felt his lips on her face. What a wonderful sensation," she said, closing her eyes to feel it in her whole being. This was true peace and fulfillment.
She absently stroked his skin, then spoke.
"There's something I'd like to ask you, Majesty.
"Yes, I'm listening."
"Do you resent children coming to play in your meadow?"
He seemed to ponder the question.
"No, not really. In fact, I never gave it much thought. After all, they had the instinct to understand never to penetrate my forest, well except for those two idiots I made sure to chase away for good."
"What idiots!" inquired Diria, intrigued.
"Uh, forget them." her lover simply declared, kissing her gently.
"I don't dare ask the second question."
"Tell me about it."
He sighed.
"Try me. After what we've both shared, I think you have a right to."
"What was that monster that chased me all the way to your kingdom?"
Diria hadn't expected her sovereign's burst of laughter.
"And now you ask that question! When it should have been your first, or at worst your second."
Diria, offended, shrugged her shoulders with false casualness.
"I had other fish to fry."
"What!"
It was her turn to mock him.
"It's an expression with us. It means I had more important things to worry about than what that hideous animal was.
"It wasn't an animal. But it's the closest thing to one in my universe, no doubt."
"But what was it?" insisted Diria, clenching her fists on her love's lean torso.
"His name wouldn't mean anything to you, however, I can tell you that he went venturing into your magic-free world to procure easy prey without any effort, and before you start asking, yes it's forbidden, so I exterminated him."
She sketched a sulky pout.
"Funny way of doing it. I feel like I played bait."
"You did at one point. But all's well that ends well, right?"
Again that unbearable flippancy that seemed to hide something deep and sinister, Diria thought uncomfortably.
"But until you exterminated him like you said you would, he must have claimed quite a few victims."
"You really believe that."
When the young woman met his glassy gaze, she had no doubt about his words.
"No." was her only reply.
Understanding as usual what she was feeling, he smiled at her and took her in his arms to cradle her.
"And the forest." she inquired again gently. "I know it's a portal that leads to your world, but still?"
"In the beginning, it was really just a forest. My forest. However, our two worlds entered each other, and it inevitably became a portal. I know, it's weird that worlds can bump into each other, but hey, you can't always control the way things go."
"I never thought I'd hear that from you," she teased, running her slender fingers along his back.
"You dare to mock my humility?"
In response, she offered him her lips, and he accepted her apology.
When their mouths parted after an interminable moment, they resumed their dialogue.
"And you, why were you in the hills that first time.
"The hill was also my playground as a child, then afterwards when I grew up, it became my place of solace."
"And you needed to be consoled because?"
"In your opinion?"
"Ahah! You're throwing my lines back at me...you like to play dangerously, you."
"Because you haven't yet guessed what I was upset about?"
"My power doesn't extend to telepathy."
"You amaze me."
She hugged her lover a little tighter although his body had already regained all its coldness, and so had the place.
"My mother has decided to get back together with my father."
"They were separated?"
"Yes, but never divorced, even though I've already asked my mother many times to take the steps. To be free to marry again if she wished, and also not to suffer the consequences of my father's actions. And given his personality, this was going to happen a lot. And of course it did. How many times did she have to pay debts or go to the police station to bail him out, and still..."
She pondered, then sighed.
"He doesn't have a bad heart, and I love him, he'll always be my father, but he's simply irredeemable."
"Go on..." he encouraged her gently.
"When the woman he's shared his life with for ten years threw him out, no doubt out of tiredness, knowing what he is, he came crawling to my mother's feet and because my mother, behind her appearance of an iron woman, is kindness itself..."