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[best_thief]

Lila discovered her back was blank when she dragged herself from her training warehouse for food. She wandered in a slight daze, after, wondering what to do with herself. She'd locked herself in to practice using her magic and purposefully ignore the curse across her shoulders, and now that it was gone her mind told her to go back to normal, back to routine. Only there was no routine in Darrow. She hated the mere idea of it. In London it had mostly consisted of thieving and sleeping, and in Red it had been better on the Spire. But here? She still didn't know what to do with herself.

Eventually she goes to Kell's. Just to show off her new skill, she tells herself, which she uses to unlock his door when no one answers. She strolls inside and looks around, and realizes why no one answered when she hears the sound his shower running. She could use a shower. Hygiene is so easy here, so convenient, that a few days without leave her skin feeling noticeably itchy.

Lila toes off her boots and slips into the bathroom. She can't see Kell, just the shape of him behind the steamed glass door. "Mind if I join you?" she asks, already pulling her tank top off.

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[best_thief]

Lila would make a joke about Holland, but even the thought of that bastard brings her to anger and she doesn't have the energy for it at the moment.

She watches Kell's hand, and then his own eyes, wondering if things had gone differently if she'd have a black eye to mirror his own. "Teach me to make a door. That will decide it. If it works, maybe we can combine our magic to make a door that will take us out of this world completely."

[bloodandflowers]

"I will teach you all that I know," says Kell, "But the blood magic, I will not rush." Kell looks as stern as a man can manage when naked and freshly fucked. "We will make a door, and one day long after, we will try to move between worlds."

[best_thief]

"Kell," Lila says, and it comes out uncomfortably close to a whine. "I don't have time for one day long after. I'm going to rot here. I'm going to waste away to nothing." She flops onto her back, staring up at the ceiling.

[bloodandflowers]

Kell's mouth crooks, and he lifts up on an elbow to watch her toss herself about. "There is much to learn," he tells her, "And all of it interesting. And," he adds, lowering his mouth to the smooth skin of her belly, "I think you have a taste for this now as well. Whatever I'll deny you in magic certainly does not apply to sex."

[best_thief]

Lila's expression of frustration evens out to something slightly more amused, and she ignores the shiver Kell's mouth against her skin elicits. "Jesus, Kell. We can't just fuck all day, every day," she says, and then pauses, leaning on an elbow and raising an eyebrow.

"...Or can we?"

[bloodandflowers]

Kell lifts one shoulder in an elegant shrug. He looks up at her and raises an eyebrow, too, still smiling faintly. "We can make a go of it," he says. "What's the harm?" He turns his head and licks along her hipbone. "The worst we can do is dehydrate each other."

[best_thief]

"Thank god for indoor plumbing?" Lila says, distracted, moving her leg to spread them in hopeful invitation. Kell's face is inches from where she'd like it most. She won't say so, but she's craved his mouth on her cunt ever since the first time he'd done it.

She's only just orgasmed, but already she wants more, another, again.