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onenicebugperday · 1 year ago
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@officialmisterrose submitted: I found these really cool bugs! First is on my door and second was at work but I'm not too sure on what the second one is if you could help me identify it! I live in [removed] (please remove location :))
I sure can! It's a leaf-footed bug nymph in the genus Acanthocephala.
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diewasserfee · 11 days ago
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haberin yok, sana bayılıyorum
04.11.2024 21:14’
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dde719 · 1 year ago
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I'm working on a Collab story w my friend called Forbidden Desires. And the way I'm completely loving the tale of best friends Autumn and Winter, and their views of love and sex. It started off slow at first but we getting to the fun stuff now 😏. I been wanting to write this since forever 🔥
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medusuhhh-dude · 2 years ago
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Redraw of my Nymph oc
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redactedme · 1 year ago
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7 presets from Club Walter [recreated]
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1. Aquagal
2. Aquaboy
3. Sage
4. llsa
5. Atlanta
6. Aurielle
7. Felicity
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cairaleighexe · 2 years ago
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listen. listen. listen. your art just screams I LOVE WOMAN so hard
it's true!! i do!!
ask game from this post!
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pixxyofice · 1 month ago
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listen. be silly
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thequeervampiric · 2 months ago
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look what I saw outside so soon after reblogging the very same bugges so recently
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applepies-and-starlight · 8 months ago
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I'm not sure if Pequod has a peg leg like Ahab does (she probably does) but if she doesn't then it's a running gag for Rachel to just. Stomp her on that foot to get her to shut up (or alternatively, stab her harpoon through said foot to keep Pequod in one spot)
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enchantedbook · 4 months ago
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'Nypmh', costume design for the ballet 'Afternoon of a Faun' by Leo Bakst, 1912.
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slowthypiglordblr · 11 months ago
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Adventure Flock: AT Cast represented with Birds.
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Jake the Duck...
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and Finn the Dodo
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Princess Bubblegum as a Pink and Grey Cockatoo
Her plumage befits her sweet yet limited morality.
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Marceline the Marital Eagle
She's scary at first glance, but her rock'n talons and sharp beak beguile a warm downy heart.
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Simon Petrikov the Crested Guan
Small, skittish, and unassuming, but this lil guy shines above all the rest in terms of quirky charm.
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Betty Grof the Greater Roadrunner
Quick witted, swift footed, and unfettered even by rattlesnakes, this wacky bird will do anything for her boo.
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Lady Cranicorn the Oriental Storke
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Huntress Wizard the Great Horned Owl
Wise in the ways of nature and a skillful predator, but a complete birdbrain everywhere else.
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Peppermint Vampire Finch
At first, one might think he's just a harmless dutiful servant. But this little nightmare is not to be trifled with.
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Susan/Kira Albatross and Frieda the Tern.
Two travelers of the sky and seas, never to be parted again.
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Lumpy Space Princess the Common Cuckoo
She's a lazy and apathetic moocher, but at least present when needed.
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Prismo the Sarus Crane
Is there any wish in the cosmos greater than spending time with this dude?
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Giuseppe the Sacred Ibis
The most wondrous and perplexing creature in all of Ooo.
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Earl of Lemongrab the Barn Owl
Can be as quiet as a mouse, but has a voice that makes your ears bleed. This guy is just messed up in the head.
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BMO the Junco
Who doesn't love a Junco in the winter?
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Moe the Archaeopteryx
The wisest of all the birds and men in Ooo
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Lemonhope the Yellow Warbler
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Billy the Argentavis
The warrior ever, the hero the skies!
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Flame Princess the Phoenix
The Mistress of the eternal flame
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Water Nypmhs are various waterfowl
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Canyon however is Pelegornis
The only one that can handle Billy's ride.
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Magic Man the Peafowl
A magnificent bastard through and through.
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Vampire King as the Roc
Former ruler of predators until Marcy came along.
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Minerva Campbell the Caladirus
She's a helper to the end, even at the cost of her own life. (was a dove before her ascension)
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Hunson Abadeer the Cassowary
The most evil of all birds.
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The Ice Crown embodies the Snow Owl
Pretty self-explanatory.
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The Lich in the leathery wings of the past
Killed off the dinosaurs of old, and now seeks finish off what remains.
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genericpuff · 6 months ago
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That panel of Hades meeting Charon initally had the same energy of that one video of Tony and Ezikiel shouting at each other across a lake.
https://youtu.be/jqFdeC7_0_w?si=LSHMquBDuf2zosl1
(The quality thing for that nypmh panel was def a mobile thing, looks awful on my phone, and is actually legibile on my computer. Hope you had fun at your con!)
i'm glad that's the vibe you got because that's precisely the vibe i was going for LOL
"WHAT'S YOUR NAME"
"WHAT??"
"WHAT IS YOUR NAME"
"CHARON"
"FUCK YOU CHARON"
"WHAT'S YOUR NAME???"
"HADES"
"FUCK YOU HADES"
"FUCK YOU!"
"YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT I DID YESTERDAY"
"YOU BETTER NOT BRING MY MOTHER INTO THIS"
"YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT I DID"
"YOU BETTER NOT"
"I BUILT THAT BOAT OVER THERE-"
"OH"
"-AND THEN I FUCKED YOUR MOTHER IN IT"
"FUCK YOU CHARON"
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laritamiauu · 12 days ago
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In your opinion, which character/s from epic would -In a modern au- know the peppa pig theme song off by heart?
If they we're in a modern au i think this would tottally be Circe and her nymphs, like i imagine circe having some kind of orphanage or smth we're she takes care of the lil nymphs, and the lil nypmhs LOVED PEPPA PIG, Circe was absolutetly so tired of hearing that stupid song everyday
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angelicxboi · 5 months ago
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i had to force myself to make her bright pink notes about LO Persephone in MY MIND
Shes 22-23, not 19.
She's also taking a mesh course, focusing on myth legends, ancient greek and literature. This major (or minor?) allows her to have insight into other gods, since she was raised with only Demeter and Hekate and many myths and history is vastly unknown to her. (She's probably in her final year, which allows her to also get an internship with Hades.)
Since she was raised essentially as a mortal, she is easy to empathize and "live" in a way that many gods on Olympus can't. Since nymphs can 'die', Persephone also can experience lost and mourning in a way that most gods can't as well.
She loves her mom, but like any adult she went to school on Olympus to get away from her. Many things about her mom is unknown to her, and vice-versa. She's a good kid to Demeter overall, though.
Her wrath is entirely her own. It was never a gift from Eris, it was never a curse. It's hers, like how her kindness is her own.
(She 'escapes' to Olympus after she kills a mortal after he ruins her mothers sacred tree.)
Athena, though maybe not by blood, is her elder sister-figure. Speaking of relationships here's all her major ones > She is friends/sisters with Artemis and Athena. Athena is the elder sister and she's probably actually a professor at Olympus university, she is definitely more involved than in canon, though. Daphne and Minthe, she naturally is just really close to nypmhs. she's not really close to any men, except maybe Helios and Hermes. Apollo is in a maybe.
She initially falls in love with the idea of Hades. Her feelings aren't just "oh big man with money~" it's more so the adventure and unknown of the underworld, the idea of death, the promise of freedom and discovery-everything that Hades represents, but Hades himself? It's definitely not love at first sight...
She's not straight, or cis. no god is, really.
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deandoesthingstome · 1 year ago
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travel the breadth of extremities
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Pairing: Geralt of Rivia X Forest Nypmh!OFC (Fithra)
Summary: Your job is to ferry travelers through the dangers of your forest. Your charge isn’t used to needing someone else so badly.
Warnings: There is sex in this story. It’s pretty tame. Some oral (m and f receiving), some standard p in v positions (cowgirl, missionary, I think that’s really it but if you find something else let me know.) NSFW, +18, NO MINORS
Word Count: 6k
A/N: I listened to Hejira on repeat almost the entire time I wrote this story. The title comes from the lyrics. I hope what I felt about this tale translated to the page for you. I made up a bunch of stuff. Also, I don’t own Geralt of Rivia or The Witcher, but I own this OFC and the words here. Please don’t repost. Likes, comments, reblogs are amazing. 
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"You should stay on your horse. And we have to keep to this path." I sighed heavily, frustrated at having to explain the situation yet again to this tall, silver haired man who had approached asking passage through the Faerlaith Forest.
We hadn’t spoken about much, other than his need to travel to the other side faster than a journey around the outer edges would take. I didn’t ask for a name because we have no need for that. And money wouldn’t be exchanged because it’s superfluous here. But from the moment we'd struck our deal, he'd already begun attempts to change the terms of our agreement. There weren't many, honestly. Stay on the horse. That was basically it. But this man, this witcher if my ken was to be trusted and it usually was, was not interested in being led along like dead weight.
“You’re sure we can't cut across the underbrush here? It'd be faster,” he groused, shifting to reposition himself securely in the saddle as I glanced over my shoulder with what I hoped was my best stink-eye as I led him along one of many paths with varying widths through the lush and dark greenery.
“You'd think so.” I’d already explained this to him at least twice since we set out from the forest’s edge, close to Gilgaard in what this man had called The Far Lands. To me, we were simply home. But this home was hostile territory to outsiders. Only the desperate and hurried ever bothered an attempt to cross Faerlaith on their way anywhere. Worn paths well clear of the forest would take any creature where they wanted to go, albeit hours or days longer than a trip through the forest. Usually.
“And I can't get down?” 
This question again, spoken with a gruff I was slowly getting used to.
“As I said from the outset, the ground in this forest is attuned to a certain presence and pressure. My footsteps and your horse will do you no harm. Your heavy gait would doom you.”
“I can walk lightly.” 
“Not likely,” I snorted, barely able to contain the laughter bubbling inside. I’d watched this man approach, reins of his steed in hand. He moved like he walked through honey, seemingly in no hurry, oddly enough. He was nimble, agile, stealthy to be sure. I could even imagine him cat-like. Maybe, wolf. But he couldn’t mask his weight when he walked no matter how quickly he might bound from foot to foot. Our land would not abide.
“Hmmm…” 
His low growl stirred an ember in the pit of my belly. One best left unattended, or so I’d always been advised. Passers-through were usually not of the ilk my kind cared to entangle with. But this man…
We walked on and I was grateful for the silence that settled over our tiny party of three. Of course the horse counted. How could she not? But the lack of grumbling allowed me to shift all my focus to the air around us, searching for telltale signs of danger, feeling for the practically imperceptible changes in pressure.
“So it's a certain gait that’s needed?” His voice caught me off guard for a moment as I realized he really would not let up.
“Mmhm.,” I answered, about to leave it at that. But maybe the conversation would be nice. It really wasn’t often anyone new came through. I decided to use his curiosity to my benefit, practicing the art of voice that wasn’t needed with my kind. “And pressure of step.”
“And you've mastered this gait?” he inquired.
“I was born to master it, so yes. Oh, and you'll want to be sure your horse...what was her name again?”
“Roach.”
“Yes, you'll want to be sure Roach doesn't try to feed or water along the way. I had you attach the leg guards in case the path gets too close or overrun with shrubbery. Her hooves are fine, but the skin should be covered.”
“The plants are dangerous?” he asked with incredulity.
“The water in the streams that lace through this land to feed them is, yes.” 
“Hmmm..” he growled again, the low throat reverberation permeating the air.
I hoped he wouldn’t ask how that came to be, that water flowing into the forest turned immediately toxic to anything not of the forest. That part of our heritage was kept hidden from all but the tribal elders. As if it would harm us to know why or how our land became so maleficent. In all my many years, though perhaps less than my somewhile companion, I was only taught how to hold the forest in high regard as I was nourished and sheltered, as well as to endure. I always considered it a wonder few ever left.
He seemed to consider it for a while as another silence fell and we walked further on into the depths of Faerlaith.
“Are you sure I can't walk myself? I’ve been studying the gait.”
“You've a hard time not being in control, don't you?” I laughed gently over my shoulder. It was amusing, this man who simply would not be told no.
“You like being in control?” he asked, a hint of something dangerous deep behind the words.
“Not especially. It's just what I do in this forest.”
“And out of the forest?” he asked.
“I could take it or leave it.” I honestly hadn’t spent much time out of the forest, so I’m not sure what those words were meant to convey. But I’d heard them once before, from a group I’d led through the bitter land and I liked the way it sounded.
“So I'm to sit here, on my horse, while you lead me, how far is it? Through the forest?” 
“We're about a third of the way through now. And yes. You just sit.” I turned my head to glance at him with a small smile over my shoulder again. “On your horse.”
“And watch.” I nodded in answer and he returned another low hum.
He was only silent for a few more moments this time.
“You can't teach me this walk?” It was definitely becoming amusing. I had a sense this man wasn’t verbose under normal circumstances, so I found it oddly endearing he couldn’t help himself here, where words were rarely necessary.
“It's the weight, too,” I replied.
“But I'm on the horse,” he countered.
“The ground doesn't know that.” 
He gave me another contemplative hum before continuing.
“It's a nice walk.”
“You've taken notice?” I was grateful he couldn’t see my eyebrow arched in curiosity. Why, I couldn’t say at the moment.
“I've had nothing to do but notice. It's...pleasant to see.”
I was about to ask if was sure he was talking about the walk when I spotted a Wrythe up ahead. The spirits were as dangerous as any other thing about the forest, save my tribe. The fact that this one had made itself known in enough time for me to turn back on our path to locate another route to the other side was puzzling. But it also meant I was distracted, and that my attention had faltered from my duty. 
“Why are we backtracking?” he asked as I carefully maneuvered Roach around in a wide part of the path.
When I was sure her hide was clear from the surrounding shrubs, I turned to answer.
“Don’t look back, but it’s gone now anyway. Still, there was a danger up ahead and now that this path for this journey is known, we have to find another way.”
“But we have to be already half way through. How far back must we go and how much longer will it take?”
“Honestly, I couldn’t say. I had hoped we could take the most direct route. I usually don’t have this kind of trouble. But I was sensed. And for now this trail is closed to us.”
Like a fool, he looked back.
“I don’t see anything.”
“I’m ignoring you for now. If you want to take your chances, be my guest, but I struck a bargain to ferry you safely through this forest. I’m going to keep moving and it’d be great if you stayed with me so I could finish my task.”
“But you’re going backwards.”
I didn’t respond. I had to recenter. Something was off. Could have been my balance, with all that twisting and turning as I attempted to view the witcher both surreptitiously and obviously, when our conversation warranted. Could have been the conversation itself. Something about the way he admired the gait. My gait. Had that caused me to falter?
We traveled back in silence again as I scanned the forest floor for the next fork that would allow us to turn back toward the exit location he had requested. Once I found it and had traveled a ways along the narrower line, I felt grounded enough to make another attempt at conversation.
“Can I ask, since I didn’t before? How is it you made it to Gilgaard without knowing about this forest or its dangers?” I called out, hoping the sound would travel over my shoulder and back to him without a turn of my head or body.
“What makes you think I come from the direction we’re headed?” Either my voice carried well or he had better hearing than most outsiders. “And you don’t have to shout.”
“You mentioned The Far Lands. Only someone not from here would call it that. And you don’t seem particularly aware of the specifics of Faerlaith.” I kept my gaze scanning the terrain in front of me, seeking out patterns or disruptions thereof. “You also don’t appear to be from around here and I had assumed you’d simply gone around us on your travels East. But usually those who choose to travel around us know why they are doing so.”
“Fair enough. I’ll admit these lands are completely new to me. I’m decidedly unaccustomed to being this unaware of my surroundings.”
“How did you even know to come this way?” I asked, always curious about why a new traveler chooses this direction.
“An old man, who come to think of it, may not have actually been an old man, heard me ask around the tavern about the fastest way back West. I’m already several weeks past due as my business in The Far Lands took longer than expected. This was his suggestion.”
“And what was your business?” He was silent and I took that to mean his business was off limits. “Alright then, how much did he tell you about where you were going?”
“Only that I’d need to seek an obvious inhabitant and strike a bargain. He mentioned the paths through were difficult, but I thought he meant twisty or hard to follow. He didn’t mention anything about poisonous water or vegetation, or spirits that turn you back when you’re halfway through.”
“Odd. Most folk who know about the need for a guide, also know exactly why. What a wonder he didn’t apprise you. Are you sorry you followed his advice?”
“It’s been a pleasant enough journey so far. If we can make it out by the end of the day, I’ll take the win.”
We walked on in what had become a comfortable silence. I could feel my belly begin to rumble but I felt rude eating when I couldn’t offer any of my food to my charge.
“Have you brought provisions with you? Any food, or water?” I asked, realizing I should have done so before we stepped into the tree-line. It would have at least given him the opportunity to go back for supplies. But when he told me where he wanted to exit and I calculated the crossing, I didn’t think we’d be stuck this long. 
Another lesson learned in my lifetime apprenticeship as a forest attendant. I’d been given so little instruction and I couldn’t help but wonder when I’d actually lose a visitor because no one had told me a key piece of information. 
“I have enough for the evening. And something for Roach. I suppose I’ll need to give her my water, since she can’t drink from here.”
“It would be best. I’m so sorry about that. Usually travelers know what they’re getting into. I really should remember to ask next time.”
At exactly that moment, another Wrythe appeared in the distance. Still far enough away that I had time to consider where to turn around or turn off next, but certainly in my intended path direction.
“What is it?” he asked, as if he could sense the shift in tension I held.
“We have to change route again.”
“What happens if we just move forward? I have a hefty sword, I could just…”
“You couldn’t.” I knew that for a fact. 
The bargains we struck for these passages were usually fleeting in nature. A favor to be curried later. Nothing truly tangible in the moment. Rarely, a brash young satyr would demand a weapon as payment. I always avoided such items, as it felt in direct opposition to the balance our kind struck with this forest to survive. But sometimes the outside trappings enchanted our kind. Those foolish young ones would find themselves face to face with a Wrythe, brandish a sword they only thought they knew how to wield, and end up missing limbs at best. The Wrythes were not to be trifled with.
“But I am an expert swordsman,” he responded, after listening to my tale.
“Good sir, I’ve never had anyone tell me anything with so much certainty. The Wrythes cannot be defeated. Only avoided. No one who has ever attempted to destroy one has escaped unscathed. And the Wrythe continues on.”
“There must be something…” I heard him mumble to himself. I had acute hearing as well.
We had just turned off to a new path, one I was sure would actually swing back around to meet up with our original route, a short distance past where we’d encountered the first Wrythe, when a third one made an appearance, though luckily off to the side and only audibly. But any more attempts West at this point would be deadly and I couldn’t risk it.
“We are not getting out of here tonight.” I tried to remain calm, but this had never happened to me before. I wasn’t sure what the next choice was, other than that I couldn’t go forward. And I needed to think. Something had disturbed my highly developed orienteering skills. “Please, no more talking.”
I eased Roach back around and up a short hill to a tri-fork. Glancing down each path, I caught a welcome sight and chose to follow the left-most branch. A short while later, a small clearing appeared along with an ancient dwelling surrounded by a raised walkway. Enough room for a man to dismount a horse without disturbing the earth. 
“I’ll have to check the provisions, but there should be a pail inside you can pour your water into for Roach. And you’ll need to tether her up here. Now that you’re dismounted, her weight will betray her. And she can’t graze besides.”
I handed the promised pail to the man and hopped off the porch with the other larger tub I had also found. Though it wasn’t the way I’d hoped to finish the day originally, luck had shifted to my side when I noticed the shelter and my mood was turning away from annoyed again. I set the vessel on the ground in the middle of the clearing and turned to see my companion wondering after me with a curious glance.
“If you have any magic powers,” I called playfully as I made my way back, “you should pray for rain tonight. Anything caught in that tub will be fresh and unburdened by the canopy of the forest. So it’ll be of value to you in the morning. Come inside,” I offered, squeezing by the horse and entering the small shack.
“Do you?” he asked.
“Have powers? Some. Though I don’t have the divining powers. I can cast a short blinding spell, to hide if I’m in the open. And I can speak through the roots. Not all of us can.It’s taken a long time to master, but I still have plenty to learn.”
I set about building a fire to keep the hut warm for the evening, then sat across the table from my guest. I studied his visage. His strong, square jaw roughly covered in a day’s growth. His cleft chin and full bottom lip. His brows furrowing towards his golden eyes.
“Since we’re stuck here for the night, could I ask your name?” 
“You didn’t need it before, when we struck our bargain,” he quirked an eyebrow at me.
“True. And I don’t actually need it now. But I thought it would be nice to know, since we’ll be together at least the night and well into tomorrow. I’m Fithra.” I wanted to extend my arm, to bind against his in greeting, but I hesitated too long and now he was answering me.
“Geralt.”
“Geralt. That’s a strong name.” I pulled my food from my pack and watched as he prepared a small feast from his. He was guarded about it before, but I wondered if sharing a meal would loosen his reserve. So I let curiosity get the better of me and asked. “What do you do, Geralt? For a living?”
“You don’t know?” he asked, seemingly surprised.
“I have an idea. But to be honest, the stories were all told as somewhere-else tales. I never knew they were true.”
“Many might wish they weren’t.”
“Are you a witcher then?”
“I am.”
“Must be maddening for you,” I conjectured, taking a small bite, conscious of the way his eyes seemed drawn to my mouth.
“What’s that?”
“Well,” I swallowed and dared a small lick of my lips, “if the tales are true, it must be torture that you aren’t able to use your powers to defeat the Wrythes. Since they can’t be defeated.”
“Everything can be defeated.” He took a bite now, and gave me an opportunity to gaze as he had.
“No one here knows how. And we’ve lived with the Wrythes for, well…since forever.”
“It’s usually true that when a people don’t know how to kill a thing, they name it unkillable. I’ve met plenty of beasts like that in my time. They don’t exist anymore.”
I fell silent with his words, unsure how to respond. I considered everything I had ever been told about the Wrythes, which amounted mostly to how to avoid them. What to do when I encounter one. Everything was some variation of “stay away” and not one piece of advice about how to harm them. Because we couldn’t.
“Do you know how they came to be?”
“Pardon?” I was shaken from my ruminations by his deep intonation.
“The Wrythes. Do you know how they came to be? Everything comes from somewhere, or something. And its destruction is often found in that detail.”
“No one ever said.” I sat dumbfounded. Suddenly, with a chill I hadn’t felt before, I remembered kin who had left the forest for good, searching for something more. What more, I could never say. “There are some who may know, but they keep the secrets.”
“What need do your people have of secrets?”
I thought about his question, even if he didn’t realize what he was asking. He couldn’t possibly know at this point that my people don’t communicate through words at all. We simply know what others are thinking and they in turn know what we are thinking. It was generally helpful in all areas of forest life, including coupling.
And as I considered what it would be like the next time I coupled with someone who knew exactly what I was thinking, I also began to imagine what it would be like to actually teach someone what I wanted. And to learn what they wanted also. I wondered if it would feel as exhilarating as learning my forest powers. If each time a discovery was made, I’d feel a fresh tingling, not better than the known, just new. 
But before I allowed myself to drift too far down that desire, I also realized this must also mean that not everyone can know everything everyone else is thinking. The elders had kept this from us. This origin. This danger. They kept the lore hidden and didn’t share and somehow I’ve allowed myself to believe what they said because why, but more importantly, how could they lie?
And yet they had. They had lied. They knew and we didn’t and they were able to keep it from us. It felt as distant and unknown as each power I might learn to strengthen my place with my people, in this world. Something to uncover.
Geralt watched me with steady eyes as I went through all the emotions that arrived with each passing thought. I wondered if he knew the moment I almost allowed myself to think about him learning my secrets. And I realized this is how they keep secrets. And I didn’t want that.
“I don’t have a need for secrets. My people may, though they pretend not to as well. It’s making me feel curious.”
“What are you curious about?”
“Why they keep the secrets. But also about you.” He wasn’t shocked or surprised. As if he was expecting it. Or perhaps hoping.
He licked his lips as he closed his eyes, shutting his light away from me but giving me a small look at what it might be like to make him shut his eyes with pleasure. The kind of pleasure that shone right through every fiber of a being so that even with eyes shut, the power and the energy might still break through.
I was eager to feel that with him and so I asked him if he would join me in the bed. He came without hesitation, grasping my shoulders to turn me toward him and leaning to press his lips against mine with an urgency I hadn’t expected. This was his desire as much as mine. I hadn’t enchanted him and for that I was grateful, because now I would be able to show him exactly what I needed and I could ask him to show me what he needed as well.
It would be brand new and exciting because there would be no expectations. Everything would be unfamiliar and all we could do was let each new touch, new caress, new kiss, take us deeper into the evening with one another. He undressed me, not as slowly as I would have preferred, and soon I lay naked before him.
“Would you like me to help you as you helped me?” I asked, eager to see him as naked as I was.
“I would like you to touch yourself for me.”
It wasn’t the answer I imagined but it was exactly the answer I was waiting for. He wanted me and he wanted me to prepare myself for him. There was no great need to add to the moisture I already knew was building up between my legs, but I felt an overwhelming desire to let him watch my tongue trace around the tips of my fingers..
The groan he let escape his lips at the sight told me how right I was. I teased my forefinger and middle finger and let him imagine exactly what I was thinking, which was how much I wanted to do this to his cock if he would finally release it from his clothing. As he moved to unbuckle and unbutton, I shoved my wet fingers right into my cunt, glistening before his wolfish gaze.
He didn’t linger on his clothes. If I thought he undressed me a little too fast, it was nothing compared to the speed with which he removed each artfully tailored article of clothing. His armor was admirable and clearly crafted by a skilled artisan, and yet it paled in comparison to the sculpted body beneath it.
I watched his muscles ripple with every movement and the sight of him made me press into my core faster and deeper with each new feature I was graced with. His shoulders, wide and commanding. His arms, bulging. His chest, taut and sprinkled with curls that begged to be combed through. If I wasn’t otherwise occupied, I would have reached out to stroke him,
I could only imagine his hips thrusting into me; his cock, enlarged and springing from between his tree trunks of thighs. I wanted him to sit so I could rub myself along them, leaving trails of slick in my path.
When he was finally naked, he dropped beside me in the bed and kissed me hard again. 
“Mmmfff. I cannot believe that a mere twelve hours ago you were but a stranger to me and I was promising future assistance and now we are here together in this bed. It seems apparent, but I feel I must ensure you are as welcoming of this as I am.”
“Welcoming?” I scoffed. “This is more than mere welcoming, Geralt. This is a promise fulfilled.”
He paused for a moment and I froze, worried he didn’t believe me. If he thought I was tricking him and would demand another promise in the morning, he would be wrong, but I couldn’t identify what he was thinking. That mysterious mind was now turning slowly to enemy and I understood why we had to keep everything in the open. Secrets make enemies.
“This is no trick. You made the promise of a promise. You didn’t know what it might be, as neither did I, but you agreed to the term and accepted my guidance. Now I am asking you to pay your favor early. To trust that I would never consider this the end of my agreement with you simply because you’d fulfilled your promise before I did. Tomorrow does not bring another bargain. This bargain endures, until I see you safely on the other side of Faerlaith. On my honor. Now, please. Speak to me as you would your lover.”
“It will require no great imagination, as I already wish this myself.”
He proceeded, then, to tell me exactly how to keep pleasuring myself for his amusement. And once he had shifted his body in between my legs, he admitted that placing his tongue dead center to nip at and lick at my not-so-more-hidden flower was making him unbearably hard. He endured for as long as it took to make me cry out his name, and I held a firm grip on his white hair as a rush of wet heat poured over his face.
When I attempted to move away and turn to place my head close to his engorged member, he stopped me. “I do not wish for that.”
“Ever?” I asked, sure I’d misunderstood.
“Just right now. Just for right now, I desire your weight lifted above me. I want to lay back and watch you slide down my cock. I want to see the pleasure on your face. It couldn’t possibly make you any more beautiful than you are now, but I want to know if I’m wrong”
He helped me find my balance and then watched rapt, exactly the way he had as I had touched myself for him. At first, he allowed me to move myself up and down his shaft, and side to side, grinding my hips into him when I could manage a full descent. Once he was sure I had experienced another wave of never known before pleasure, he began to thrust and rut up into me. I managed to remain upright for as long as I could, eventually succumbing to an errant buck and falling forward against his chest. He held my mouth on his and kissed me deeply, keeping our lips sealed against one another even as he began to turn me to my back.
Every move was almost exactly as I would have wished it. Every touch, every kiss, every press, every pull. They all felt so familiar and yet so foreign at the same time. He took every cue I gave and translated it into the way I wanted him to put his hands on my body, and even though he didn’t find the spot I thought I wanted him to find, he found another. And the trembling I felt begin in my bones was nothing compared to the cry of ecstasy he drew from me before he roared with a final thrust.
It was as late in the evening as the early morning hours when I woke to find him seated at the edge of the bed. The fire embers were still burning low and I wondered if he thought we needed another log of slow burning knup wood. I was startled when he spoke.
“I can hear them.”
I was about to ask him who when I, too, heard the Wrythe’s cry. How had he not heard this before? In the woods, when my hearing had allowed it. I thought our senses were well matched.
“Is it always like this?” he asked.
“Like what? What exactly do you hear?” I countered, realizing I couldn’t be sure if he was hearing what I was. His answer confirmed it though. And as we listened to the low, mournful wail, circling the clearing knowing it couldn’t cross the open field to find us, I draped myself around him, legs across his lap and arms encircling his shoulders. I melted into the cradle of his arms as he reached up to hold me close.
“But you don’t hear what they are saying?” he asked.
“What? They don’t speak words.”
“Oh they absolutely do. They’re speaking right now.”
“Geralt. You’re saying you hear words in that low moan that you couldn’t hear not more than three hours ago?”
“That’s exactly what I’m saying.”
I waited longer than I felt I should have had to.
“Well, for ‘leith’s sake, what are they saying?”
Geralt proceeded to translate a tale that both saddened and angered me. These Wrythes, the spirits that would not let us defend a wayward traveler without injury, these forest menaces, they were protecting us. They were the ghosts of wayward forest kin, end met too soon in a hateful or violent manner, returned to their home. Cursed, as in life, with no voice as well as no unspoken connection. That skill had disappeared with the life. The ghost instead returned with moans. Or so we thought, apparently. Or had been told.
Geralt, and who knows how many others, had the ability to hear the words. If the elders knew and this is what they were keeping from us, I had even more questions than before. I slowly eased myself off Geralt’s lap to settle back against the wall and drew my knees to my chest.
“They are saying that there are still others, as far as they know, who remain outside the forest.” He turned to face me, drawing one knee onto the bed. “That they are only exceptions, souls who were killed in crime at the same rate as any other people in the world. They want you to know, there is no reason to think this would happen to everyone who entered the wider world for good, not just to make a trade.”
“But then why do they harm us when we ferry men, or sorceresses, or elves across?”
“Pure coincidence. The ones they appear around are most likely to do harm or evil to your kind.”
“But they appeared for you?”
“Ah yes. They appeared because they knew my hearing would pick up the vibration, but only after you and I laid together.” 
I blinked and took in the words, as well as the small smile on his face. The Wrythes had played matchmaker. That was why I couldn’t get across the forest this time. But then would Geralt have ever agreed to this if not for the interference?
“Yes. Yes I would have.” He seemed to know exactly what was going through my mind, but it was my clear voice hanging in the air that assured me the question had been asked out loud. “As soon as we were clear of the trees, I would have asked you to accompany me to the nearest inn for an evening before I continued on my way. I still may yet.”
I was surprised to hear such an unabashed confession and felt a swell in my heart. Even though our coupling had created a connection, it appeared to only allow Geralt to hear the Wrythes. It did not afford him the ability to speak without words to me. And he had chosen to speak his mind to me with no uncertainty.
“It pleases me to know this. In fact, it makes me want to return under these covers with you right now.” He gave a wolfish grin and joined me.
In the morning, I convinced Geralt to give me one last coupling. It was slow and lazy as he made his way up and down my body with kisses, tasting and nipping here and there, paying attention to what made me squirm and then repeating the motion a few more tortuous times. He found a way to make me almost release with just his tongue on my nipple. And he didn’t mind at all as I pressed against his chest and gently eased him onto his back so I could seat myself between his legs and press my lips and tongue to his cock before I slid my mouth around and down the shaft. 
I moaned around his girth and recalled how it felt to have him buried inside me last night. When I could no longer bear the memory alone, I eased off his cock and leaned back, beckoning for him to shift his body forward and over me so he could slip his dick back inside and make me come for him again and again.
It was worth the late start, especially because it had already been determined I would not be accompanying Geralt to the next inn. This one night, and now morning, would have to suffice. I was leaving the forest, for sure. The paths were still treacherous to outsiders, though as long as they stayed on horses and did not stop to water or eat, they could make it across without delay now. And without a guide.
I was no longer needed and so, yes I’d be leaving the forest to see if making my way in the wider world was of worth. But Geralt would not be joining me on my journey and nor could I join him on his. He was on his way to Kaer Morhen and late as it was. The route would be treacherous, the roads beginning to cover in snow. It was not a suitable place for outsiders. 
He turned to me with gratitude as we reached the forest edge and began to say our parting words.
“I will never forget you, Geralt of Rivia. I am glad to have met you along my way and happy it was through knowing you that the curse of my people was lifted. I am fearful about what this change will bring to my home, though. Maybe more of my kin will die at the hands of travelers.”
“The land will surely still protect you,” he spoke as a sage “And I have no doubt our paths will cross again someday. It has been my experience that once a kindred soul is met, nothing but death will break the bond and they will re-meet over and over. Surely, you and I are kindred. And I look forward to the day we draw near again.”
After a final kiss, wrapped in his embrace, we finally broke free and parted ways. I headed south and he pointed north. I turned on my toes from time to time, pleased to see him peering back over his shoulder every now and then until the distance between us was so wide and he began to drop down over the hill so that I could no longer see even the top of his head. 
I turned south again to make my way to meet my next fate.
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when we are old & our hearts have beat within us, let us go back, & when we have buried our loves, & shed our bodies piece by piece, & when we have danced & broken our shoes, & danced, let us go back, when we have gone mad, & when we have shut the doors, dismantled our eyes & rifles, let us go back, when we have drunk the wine & licked our lips & put our tongues to the inside of the green glass bottle & laid down our bodies old as trees, streets, let us go back, when we have told our stories & forgotten our stories, & set the tables & made the beds, let us go back, & received other bodies into our bodies, let us go, when we have entered, & opened, & opened our mouths, let us go back, […] when the poem has been sung, when the strings & tambourines, when all the birds have gathered at the window, let us go, let us go back there, let us go back —Aracelis Girmay, from “Litany,” Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007)
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