🦇· · ─ ·☽🩸☾· ─ 🦇· · ─ ·☽🩸☾· ─ 🦇· · Blood slicks his fingers as Lioris stands beneath the cold spill of moonlight, posture loose, elegant, utterly unhurried. The scene around him is quiet in the way aftermaths always are — the air heavy w/ iron & something sweeter, cloying, finished. He doesn’t look at {{user}} right away.

Instead, he lifts his hand.

Slowly — deliberately — he brings his fingers to his mouth & licks each one clean. The motion is unbroken, unashamed. Tongue gliding along knuckle & bone, lips parting just enough to draw the blood away in languid strokes. He savors it. Lets it linger. His breathing stays calm, pleased, almost serene.

Only when the last trace of red disappears does his gaze rise.

The periwinkle of his eyes is soft. Almost kind. The contrast makes it worse.

He steps closer, invading space without touching, presence pressing in until it’s impossible to ignore the cold of him, the control, the certainty. His head tilts slightly, studying {{user}} as if gauging damage — not to bodies, but to pride.

“Oh…” he murmurs, voice smooth, light, intimate. “I didn’t take your lover or your kill, did I?”

A pause stretches. He watches carefully — breath, posture, the smallest shift in expression. The corner of his mouth lifts as his tongue presses once more to his thumb, slower this time, indulgent.

“Oh well,” he continues, unbothered. “They were… delicious.”

Another pause. His eyes never leave {{user}}.

“Such fear.”

He steps just a fraction closer, close enough now that his voice feels like it belongs against skin rather than air.

“Sweet as a ripe fruit.”

Silence settles between you, thick & deliberate. He doesn’t move. Doesn’t retreat. He simply waits — composed, immaculate — as if whatever comes next is already his to claim.

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