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How could he be so infernally calm? Yunalesca could feel her pulse racing, could not seem to calm her breathing. Both reactions somehow more than simple passion, though the female could not recall ever wanting another beta more.

Those slight smiles... Her heart thundered irrationally inside her. More irrationally, 'Lesca wanted to see more of them. Pretend if she had to that somehow she had been their cause, and that they were not mocking for her being a fool. She did not want VooDoo to...

A soft sound between happiness and disbelief issued from her as she watched his fingers with her braid, eyes closing as she felt the gentle pull of tension. The slight difference of feel between it being free and caught... as she was.

Caught & terrified.

The short lengths of her hair brushed her pale but still flushed cheeks as she nodded to his question, a shiver running through her body as she felt his ripple beneath hers. Never before had she just... lain like this with someone. It was nearly too much. And yet... Yunalesca found she wanted more. Of this. How unusual, and frightening. "You mean you don't know?" Her voice trembled even as 'Lesca attempted to make light.

She hoped he was not laughing at her. She was not certain if she could bear it.

"Truth?" She asked, opening her eyes but not yet looking back into VooDoo's face. Instead their silver caught on the soft pink of the rose pendant, floating between them on the chain around her neck. Maybe... "I... I'm not sure how to put it. You know I want you. It's not like I wasn't blatantly obvious about it when we met. But it's not that. Or the wonders of your magic." Wincing 'Lesca frowned softly and turned her face aside in a way that would not tug on her braid, twisted around VooDoo's finger. It nearly put her head in his hand. Her chest heaved and shook lightly. It was not easy confessing this to herself, much less aloud. Her eyelids fell shut. "It's more how you make me feel... what I'd be willing..."

Biting her lip Yunalesca pressed her eyes closed. That harbored thought terrified her. Never would she have dreamed she might consider such a thing. It was foolish...

Yet she was a fool for hoping someone like VooDoo might ever think of her for a mate. More a fool for starting to want it... to consider it. To be willing to give up her freedom.

This type of want... she did not know how to deal with it. And it had changed her. Left its mark. Had her reading & studying & blushing like a schoolgirl. Caring about his opinion... bringing him home. What the hell was wrong with her?

Yunalesca had not meant to be vague or puzzling. Only.. what she was feeling was puzzling her to the core. She should not want this. Her eyes closed as she savored his fingers upon her cheek. So gentle.

But she had to see him, in this silence. Try in her poor way attempt to read anything from this mysterious male. Deep down, 'Lesca knew he had not been laughing at her. It was only her childish fears and insecurities behind the unfamiliar feelings she was having for VooDoo. How he thought of her meant more to her than she cared to admit... and yet she felt she had admitted as much to him already.

She blinked as he lifted her up, struck dumb as VooDoo took her hand. A single nod at leaving the tanks, one hand reaching to catch the strap of the bag that held what they had come here for. She slipped it over her shoulder in a fluid motion as she swam hand lightly in his to the portkey. Whatever VooDoo wanted to talk about -and her heart pounded frantically- she had no desire to need to return to this tank anytime soon.

That he nestled close as the portkey transported them back to the main tank astounded her to where, without really thinking, Yunalesca held him close. But she did not have time to wonder why, swimming silently with him to the field of kelp, waving prettily in the slight motion of the waters around it. The grasses tickled where they brushed her body, causing her to shiver. What was VooDoo thinking, all this while? Try as she might, 'Lesca could not read him though she wished she could. As much as she wanted to... she did not know him well enough. But she wanted to know him, and not only his body.

It caught the female by surprise when he spun around. She barely caught the odd bend of his body, captivated with the way his glowing red eyes stared up into hers. She was startled by his words enough that she barely noticed how his hair was drifting about save when a strand passed in front of his face. Her lungs felt like lead in her chest as he continued speaking. He just... proposed to her?

Many thoughts and emotions whirled about inside her, 'Lesca unable and honestly unwilling to look away. His display of magic in creating the ring impressing her not in its power but in what it symbolized. Her answer frightened her with its intensity within her heart.

Letting the bag slide from her shoulders Yunalesca reached to hold each of his wrists in her hands, pulling them and the ring they held to her breast where they could feel the pounding of her heart. "That I want to be by your side, now and forever, that's why I'm terrified." A cold chill of fear seemed to blanket her, everywhere but where she clutched VooDoo's hands to her. "I'd rather be afraid of what I feel for you and have you... " She felt the utter fool but she did not care, her silver eyes bright as she met the red glow of his. He wanted her by his side. "Of course I'll have you, VooDoo. I... I've nothing to give you but myself, but I'm yours."

Her voice sank to a soft hush. It was the truth. He, who had never had her in body, had her heart sure as if he had cast his magic to set chains around her. Yet... Yunalesca for all it frightened her this unknown, she did not mind. In fact, she was filled with a wonderful feeling she hoped would never go away.


Thinking of getting a back tattoo for 'Lesca. It's a voodoo vede, for love. ref: 1 2 if we want to work it into an RP at some point. ^_^))

((O_O okies! I hadn't thought about them both getting it... but that'd be even more cool! ^_^))

As if in a dream Yunalesca watched him smile & rise. She let her hands slip from their hold around his, an incredulous curve curling her lips as the ring slipped onto her finger, enraptured by that yet at the same time enthralled by the motions of VooDoo's long fingers -how they looked, how they felt upon her hand. Love? Silver eyes flashed to catch glowing red a moment before closing as she felt the press of forehead to forehead, sighing softly.

His nuzzle to her neck sent a flood of emotions through her 'Lesca had never known and she found herself clinging gently to him in a happy embrace. M'dear. So this... was love?

She exhaled sharply as they unwound, eyes blinking as they darted forward. A smile for his reactions, unexpected as they were. He was hers. And she was his. Mates. Aman would have kittens when he found out. The thought made her giggle. Or was it her mate's giddiness rubbing off on her? VooDoo... giddy? It was not something Yunalesca had ever expected to see in the male. And yet... there it was. I don't get you, VooDoo. I don't get you at all. But I've got you... and Hell take me but I love you... Now what? 'Lesca flicked her fins to keep up, then as he looked back at her with that grin & his lovely two-toned hair obscuring & revealing his face to catch up -gliding her free hand through the water between them to move his hair out of the way as her body angled toward his. With a loving touch she had never shown a lover Yunalesca trailed her hand down the length of his face. Sure her love could not kiss her, but she could him. With delight twinkling in her silver eyes she touched her lips to his grinning mouth, sighing happily at the feel of his stitches. Then she pulled back, blushing and a little shy. She watched his face, just close enough so that his hair moved by the water mostly swirled around both of their heads, shivering as the locks brushed against her bare skin. If this was a dream... Yunalesca never wanted to wake.