bloodbound. (earinor & akira)

    • Yujin wanted to come up with a good solution as soon as possible, but right about now, the only thin he could think about, well, the only one that made sense, was telling Yin she had done something in her drunken state and that none of this could, possibly, be Richards doing. Why? Because the poor guy was adrestian and about as straight as a fucking wooden floorboard - that wasn’t too wrong, but only if said floorboard was broken into way too many pieces and then glued back together in some weird S-formation, but ... that was too much. Yujin didn’t want to think about anything right now, actually, he could kill for a good meal and his stomach said as much - but his body would, most likely, also kill for a shower and some alone time, whatever that was true alone time or with Richard, that didn’t matter. “But he’s probably already up and if my girlfriend finds out we’re both fucked”, he sighed. Why did he even have Yin? There was no need to, he often enough didn’t even feel like spending time with her and yet, they both were going somewhat steady, right? Accepting defeat didn’t sound so bad, at least not right about now and that meant ... what did that mean, really?

      “Dunno, you’re the one with the brain”, Yujin responded, shrugged with his shoulders and he was, actually, wrong. They both had done their best at fucking each others brains out yesterday night and now that they were awake, he wouldn’t mind cuddling with the blonde, or calling him his girlfriend, but quite frankly, that was an incredibly silly thought, wasn’t it? “We could just, what do I know, throw on my clothes, bother a servant to fix us a bath, wash up and then get back to the usual? I’ll just tell Yin that we went out for a walk because we both couldn’t sleep - and I mean, we both are still ugly as fuck, so it’ll work”, he joked and then looked at Richard that still lay there. What was their relationship? What were they supposed to do with one another? The wolf didn’t know, but he let himself fall back into bed next to Richard - he didn’t want to fuck, but even when sober, a kiss didn’t sound too bad, did it now? Maybe that was why he turned over and stole one from the blonde - and then giggled. “So, what do you want to do next time?” This was stupid, wasn’t it?
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • "You change your mind about your girlfriend an awful lot.", Richard pointed out. One minute he didn't care if she found out, then he did, then he wanted to break up, then he didn't. Well whatever, she wouldn't find out, they'd manage somehow and Richard wasn't going to wrack any more havoc on their relationship than he already did and probably would continue to do. "She won't.", Richard assured Yujin. Well Richard for one was pretty good at lying, he could tell her with a straight face that he never even looked at Yujin, maybe she'd believe him. Besides, did he seriously look like someone who'd fuck around? And did he look like he was in the mood to do anything yesterday? Probably not, so she would believe him, right? Anyway, did Yujin truly expect him to come up with a plan? Why? He didn't even know this castle and what they'd be able to manage in here and what not. Who they could let them see and who not. "And you're the one with the girlfriend.", Richard simply pointed out, that wasn't really the blondes responsibility, was it?

      "Don't call me ugly, asshole.", Richard grumbled, but thought about the plan and shrugged his shoulders. "Sure. At least I should take a bath otherwise I can hardly explain that smell..." But if he put on his clothes, they'd start reeking too. Why didn't he try that stuff those servants brought him? He also couldn't exactly borrow something, how would he explain that? Well if they were quick maybe it still worked out. "You don't have to tell her we were together. Both of us can take walks alone, you know? And she wouldn't even know if I was in my room or not.", Richard answered and watched Yujin fall next to him. He turned over and gave him a fucking kiss, which made him furrow his brows. What was he giggling for now? Richard grabbed Yujin by his shoulders and pushed the wolf back on his back as if he was trying to get a child to sleep. Then the blonde sat up. "I'm not your girlfriend.", he made clear and let out a sigh. "I dunno, we'll see." With that he got up. The icy floor was cold under his bare feet, but he ignored it and turned to the floor to find his clothes. He got into his pants, but then he kind of started to struggle. He wasn't sure which layer came first and even when he put it on, it hung off his shoulders and he fumbled with closing it up to no avail.

    • “I’m young and stupid, what do you expect?”, Yujin snickered. In fact, they both were and they had every right to deny someone they didn’t feel like loving, but not in this kind of way - nobody deserved to be cheated on and that, for a fact, was something that the wolf knew, but gods, he didn’t care. Actually, why should he? There was no need to, Richard and him weren’t going to become something permanent - this was just to make them both feel good, fall asleep and feel more than just drained. “I’ll tell her a dog mauled me then, let’s see if she buys that when she sees the marks you left me with.” Again, this wasn’t anything funny and yet Yujin couldn’t help it, he was in a good mood today and that wouldn’t change all that fast, not when he already had a morning like this and the fact that he might as well use his brain to think for once, wasn’t that somewhat thrilling too? Eugh, stupid thoughts, that soon after waking up? No thanks. “You can have her, if you want, I mean, I’m sure she wouldn’t be opposed to, you know ... if we asked her?” What the fuck, Yin would most definitely not only kill him but Richard as well, but that was the goal, right? Dying along was probably no fun.

      “Says the fucker that told me that we can be ugly together a few hours ago, before he decided I was ugly enough to fuck”, the wolf retaliated and he wasn’t wrong. Neither of them were actually ugly, sure, their faces could use a little rearranging, but that was nothing that a fistfight couldn’t fix - though, it was too early for that, wasn’t it? “Then let’s get into those clothes and find a servant. What do you want for breakfast? That way I’ll save myself some awkward talking”, he quickly explained and if he was honest, it would also spare him from having to seek out someone twice and they could just laze around for a while, especially once they got their asses into a bath. “Hm, true. But what do you want to wear? The sweaty clothes you came in? I can give you some of mine, they’d fit - though, Yin doesn’t know all of the clothes I won”, the wolf elaborated and the gears in his head were turning, for a second at least, but then he got rejected, or was he? “So we can kiss and fuck when we’re intoxicated but the moment we’re sober we’re going back to not even liking each other? That’s boring.” Though, why wouldn’t he prefer it that way? Richard wasn’t going to be here for the rest of his life and he’d eventually have a girlfriend to marry, so it all checked out, didn’t it? “Right”, he replied and then got up himself, collected his clothes and half-assedly slipped into some of them, all the while he looked at the blonde struggling. A soft chuckle escaped his lips and he eventually walked over to him, assessing what he was doing and ... gods, no. “You’ll only need one or two layers, so you might want to get rid of this and this”, he said and pointed at the layers he meant. “And you’d put on this first and then that one to tie the sash, let me lend you a hand, the knot isn’t that hard so come on, put them on the right way.”
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • Yeah what did Richard expect, especially from Yujin who by all means never had been someone that was good at picking out his friends. Either way, Yujin could do whatever he wanted and Richard would also continue doing the same, they didn't owe each other anything and thus there was no point in telling him what to do with that girlfriend of his. "Have you ever been bitten by a dog? That doesn't look anything like a dogs bite, you know?", he answered, not apologizing at all. It was hard to explain somehow, but that was about all. Should he lend Yujin his neckerchief? No- actually he put it on his own neck right away, Yujin already saw it and that was enough people knowing about it. It was ugly and showed what happened to him, it would make people ask questions Richard didn't want to answer. Then he stopped in his tracks and looked at Yujin utmost confused. "Say what?", he asked shaking his head. "I don't want to share your girlfriend!" What even was that offer? Yujin sounded serious, what the hell? And why would Richard let another annoying wolf into his life, one was more than enough!

      Yujin got Richard there, he was right, he did say that... Richard just growled, without saying anything to that anymore, he didn't want to admit that Yujin made a good point there. At least Yujin had some ugly bitemarks around his neck now as well. Fuck. Why did he even do that? "Breakfast? I don't care...", he mumbled, but immediately changed his mind. "Actually... bread and milk. That's all." He didn't want to die on the spicy food once more, it had been embarrassing enough and it didn't even taste good. It tasted like nothing in fact, it just hurt his mouth. "She might not know all your clothes but I didn't come with a bag.", Richard replied. How would he have something else to wear all of a sudden? Where would that come from and why? "And what would I do with my own clothes?" Burn them? Hide them? carry them home like that was totally normal? Richard turned to Yujin with a big sigh. "What did you expect?" The blonde never said he didn't like Yujin , though. But he wouldn't tell him that now. This was nothing romantic, it wasn't supposed to be. They fucked, because they wanted to take their minds off of things, they did and now the were something else again. Strangers or somewhat distant friends. Richard didn't think none of them would come crawl back for more, but until then Yujin had his girlfriend to kiss. Yujin came over to help Richard and again he was embarrassed, because he had no idea how to wear that stuff. He grumbled and got rid of the layers he didn't need and put that stuff on like Yujin wanted it to be. He didn't want any help but if he didn't want to run around half naked, he needed to take it, right? "That's bullshit..."

    • Richard was a complicated gremlin with a peculiar mind of his own, something that Yujin didn't mind, but it got in their way - in both of their ways, to be honest. Actually, it almost was painfully apparent that they had been thrust back into the world of the living, that they were forced to take action, to be, to breathe, to live, to act. Something along those lines was going to be the cause of it all, was going to give him an idea how it worked, how it should work, how it should be - but Yujin ignored it all, all the warning signs, all the things that the world spat out at him and instead, he took in what he'd taken for granted ages ago: someone that actually gave a damn about him, maybe for only a few hours or minutes at a time, but that was fine, Richard was fine, actually. "I don't even think we have dogs down here. The closest thing to it would be an actual wolf ... or something from Daein?", he mused, but he knew that all of this was in vain anyway. The cannibals of Daein were long since gone, none of them sustained themselves on human flesh anymore, or at least that was what they were inclined to believe.

      "We're not sharing my girlfriend, you and my girlfriend are kind of sharing me?" Yujin did raise a point and the funniest thing about that was, well, besides all the obvious stuff, that his beloved wasn't even in the know. Fuck, this was going to get ugly once she figured the two of them out, wasn't it? But until then, they had plenty of time, not only for themselves, but also to figure more of it out for anyone that would come and approach him. "I'm not serving you spicy food for breakfast, you can have something else, you know? Thrians aren't that insane", he sighed and he meant it. Sure, that wasn't customary everywhere, some of them probably loved to torture themselves once they got up, but whatever the case, Yujin wasn't going to pull some odd move on Richard - he'd rather not have his face rearranged. "And she might not know that, because she was fucking wasted yesterday." That didn't mean that Yujin didn't believe that Yin retained some memory of yesterday night, but getting through to her was somewhat ... hard, especially when she was acting like a numbskull. "Give them to me, I'll let the servants wash them - I'll bring them over when I'll pick up my mantle?" The wolf hadn't forgotten about that, not yet, but maybe he should, actually, maybe he shouldn't even consider thinking that Richard was ever going to relinquish that again, but for now, that didn't matter much. "A kiss? Some loving words? I don't know, you really don't have to blow me right after waking up, but at least some cuddling would've been nice", he suggested, but all of this sounded very emotionally charged, didn't it? Fuck, he had better things to do than bitch and moan about not getting treated the way he wanted to be. "Welcome to Thria, everything here is bullshit form an adrestian perspective, Richard", he briefly said, before putting his hands to work - at least the blonde was wearing that stuff the right way around, so binding that sash wouldn't be too difficult. "You do it like ... this." Now, that held up pretty well, yes?
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • "Then I guess it would be a bullshit excuse.", Richard remarked. He needed to come up with something better, or at least hide it long enough for it to heal. Telling his girlfriend she was the one that did that may have been the best bet though, but Richard didn't know her and he didn't know if he was even the type of doing that. Well Richard didn't think he was the type either, but since he got here he learned a lot of new things about himself, one was that he may never been as good as he had seemed to be, that not only Dayan had been someone being able to throw a tantrum or be rough. Maybe Richard just didn't know the right people, or it was the fact that he always cowered in his brothers shadow, by choice that was. He was different, not only the shell he built around himself, also the things he said and did during the night, when he was high and drunk, that wasn't all too much like him. Richard had died, that grew more and more apparent and his stead someone else was occupying his body and claiming it as his own, just faintly reminded of who he was by his dreams and the urge to somehow make all of it right.

      "Your words were 'you can have her'", Richard reminded Yujin and rolled his eyes. "Look, if she's no opposed to the idea of us fucking from time to time, tell her if you want. I don't care. She's your girlfriend and I won't butt in whatever you decide to tell her." And it wasn't a question if he wanted to share Yujin with her, so his opinion really didn't matter anyway. Yujin could do what he wanted and if he decided to ask her if it would be okay, that didn't mean he had to tell her it already happened twice. Richard would tell the lie Yujin wanted him to tell, there was nothing more to it. "Ten, whatever really.", Richard answered again, as long as the food wasn't spicy, he was fine. He wasn't very picky after all, that had also been one of Dayans traits. "She's not the only one that might notice." Did Richard have to explain everything to Yujin? He almost acted like he wanted her to find out. "Your mantle? Ah... forgot that it's there...", he nodded and looked away. He didn't forget, actually he had been using it to keep hm warm and night. He didn't want to give it back, it smelled like Yujin... no actually it didn't anymore and either way, he didn't care. It was just... practical and the fabric was nicer then that of Richards blankets! "That's what couples do. We're no couple. You understand that, right?", Richard asked. If not, then this might very well be the last time they had done anything like this, because feelings and emotions weren't what Richard needed or wanted. There was no need to drag Yujin into his mess. Richard was looking down his body, watched Yujin move every piece of fabric in the right spot and secured it with the sash. "Thanks...", he sighed. Fuck this was embarrassing. "So what now?"

    • "I'll come up with something if anyone asks, if not, we can just keep it the way it is", Yujin elaborated, then shrugged his shoulders once more. Fuck, he needed a bath and fuck, he wanted some alone time, actually, but ... wasn't teasing Richard bound to be somewhat fun at least? "I'm sorry, let me revise my words. You can have me, sporadically, if you want me to fuck your brains out. No strings attached, just a girlfriend that might want to join in." That was a good lie and a half because he was fairly certain that he'd already caught feelings and he was even more certain that no matter what he did, none of this would suffice to get to fuck both Richard and Yin at the same time - maybe he should take tu- ... who even said he was going to fuck anybody? Gods, he was confused. "Breakfast for you it is, alright?" This wasn't a question to begin with, but now that they were somewhat dressed, they could at least seek out some poor servant and pester them with their wants and needs. Sometimes, Yujin felt almost sorry for those bastards, having to adhere to every wish of a family of maniacs and getting paid ... jack shit, right? Some of them would probably fancy work in Adrestia, but most of them were homebound, so they weren't going anywhere, not in a million years.

      "My parents were shitfaced, Xu isn't going to ask too many questions and I can shut my sisters up. As for your dad, he doesn't seem like he'll just straight up ask", Yujin concluded, but he did wonder what that old, scary wolf would think - and if he had to actually get chummy with him if he ever wanted to ask for permission to date Ric- no, no, no, this was ridiculous and he still believed Nayantai was going to murder him on the spot. "I'll probably forget it's at your place anyway, so just remind me the next time I come over." Nothing was easier than that, at least Yujin thought so and the more he wondered if any of that was even going to make sense, they moved on to the thing he wasn't exactly upset about, but maybe he'd be. "Yes, we're fuckbuddies at best, but some aftercare never hurt a bitch", the wolf concluded and he wasn't wrong, was he now? The thing was, he probably was expecting too much and he was trying too hard, but whatever the case, whoever cared, this was nothing to be disturbed by - in fact, they both were young, didn't fucking know what they wanted and they also were trying to use one another as outlets, weren't they? "No need to, and, uh, we're going to leave, pester the first servant we see and then we're going to bathe? After that breakfast and then you're free to go if you want."
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • "Fine." Richard didn't care which lie Yujin would fabricate and tell to whom, it wasn't really Richards problem. He didn't have to explain anything to anyone except maybe Nayantai and he already knew and didn't ask, actually he probably didn't even care or maybe was happy that Richard found a way to feel good for once and sleep. When he'd see him all well rested, he probably already wanted Yujin to stay over again or bake him some kind of cake with the text 'Thanks for fixing my son for a few hours' on it. "Join in?", Richard asked almost confused, where was he getting into now? Two people that might stick to him? Either way, as long as Yujin was somewhat available to him, that was enough, hiding was fine too, not hiding as well. Still, that girl didn't really look like she liked Richard a whole lot, so he doubted this would ever be a real question. She also didn't seem like the sharing type. Either way, breakfast sounded good, he was kind of hungry after not eating a whole lot. Now that he slept kind of well, his appetite came back too, at least for now. Once he was going home his mind probably had other plans for him again. He actually looked forward to his training though, to a nice jog to clear his head and some workout.

      "He doesn't care. Don't worry about him.", Richard explained about Nayantai, he truly didn't pose any problem at all. He wouldn't ask, he wouldn't care, if anything he'd be happy. "Fine." If Yujin forgot about his coat, Richard didn't have to hand it over right? Fuck... what was he thinking? Next time he came over Richard would just throw it into his face and send him off again! "I've fucked, blown and held hands with you. Isn't that enough care?", Richard asked sighing and rolling his eyes. Damn why was Yujin such a bitch about that now? He was the one waking Richard up and telling him they overslept anyway, why would he cuddle him now? They already were late with all of what they wanted to do, right? Maybe next time Richard would just leave once they were done, that saved him from whatever this now was and whatever had happened last time. "Good. Then lead the way.", Richard nodded. He wondered though, would a bath be ready that quickly? Two baths actually? Ad how the hell did steaming water and a fucking ic castle work together? How did they even cook? How did their kitchen look like?! Richrd suddenly had so many qustions but one would be answered soon.

    • This conversation was only going to lead to an argument and if Yujin had learned anything in those few weeks that he knew the blonde, then that would be that arguing with him was useless and that he should stop now, while he had the chance and a not-broken nose, as simple as that. After that, all of this would be fair game and he didn't have to worry about anything, as long as he kept his head down and obeyed, or rather, acted like he gave a damn. "Forget it, maybe next time, then", he said, shook his head and while he, somehow, was admitting that Richard was right, he actually wasn't, but another discussion would only lead down a rabbit hole that Yujin didn't want to deal with this early in the morning. Factually, if he thought about it just a bit too much, the sufficient answer for all of this would be that he, of all people, wasn't even well equipped enough to give Richard a piece of his mind - he liked talking, yes, but not fighting, at least not verbally, especially if two balled fists could do the same amount of damage on a physical rather than a psychological level. Well, hell - they'd gotten this far and now it was back to being awkward strangers, wasn't it?

      "Your wish is my command", he chuckled and led Richard out of the room they'd stayed in, taking the leftover laundry they both had. Down the stairs they went and the first servant Yujin spotted, he bothered, as usual. After explaining that they both would like a bath, and that they might as well get rid of the laundry that the prince was holding and oh, a breakfast would be nice, the woman obliged and went her way, directing Yujin to a place where he could drop the laundry off, which was pretty much a corner that somebody would pick it up from. "Do you even ... you know what, I'll just show you, actually", Yujin laughed and then, they pretty much played the waiting game as he directed the blonde into the direction of the baths. His father was insane, tha tmuch was clear, judging by the fact that he lived in a castle made of solid ice, but also, because he probably was the only person on this goddamn continent that thought maybe, just maybe, he could use a space on the ground floor to build ... whatever the fuck that was. Preparing a bath wasn't all that necessary, it just boiled down to switching out the water that was in ... was that even a tub? Well, Yujin shoved Richard inside and closed the door behind them - this was more of a pool, carved into the not ice floor, and the water was warm enough to at least make the ice slippery, which probably was a safety hazard. Also, for a tub, that probably was gigantic. "This is ridiculous, isn't it?"
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • Maybe next time what? What was Yujin talking about now? Damn he could be so annoying when he stared ome bullshit and then just brushed it off int he hopes Richard would just forget. Well he didn't care anyway, so he didn't inquire more about it and just thought about it endlessly. In the end this was better than his usual thoughts so he didn't complain. Instead he just helped finding all their pieces of clothes they didn't wear just now on the floor and also picked up the vial to put it into Yujins hand. He also asked about the dirty sheets and blankets, after all they used some if it to wipe various liquids off their bodies but Yujin could care about those later too, as well as the carafe that he brought. He took a quick look around once more, before he followed Yujin out to find a servant, bring their clothes to some random place and then find where ever the bathtub was. Richard was already curious when Yujin asked a cryptic question and then just made Richard follow him around some more, until they came to a door Yujin opened up.

      Richard stumbled due to the push but he didn't fall. He wanted to give Yujin a piece of his mind, but instead, when he looked up, he was almost stunned. It even was warm in here! In the middle there was some sort of carved out space with steamy hot water and it was huge, bigger than the fucking bathtubs in Myriad that needed to be filled every time and it took way too long. "I've complained about the cold since I got here and you only now bring me here?!", he asked in disbelieve. The ice around was slippery, but Richard didn't mind, in fact he already got rid of his shoes and socks, just left them where he stood and made a few steps closer to the water, to kneel down and hold a hand into it. One thought he had was that even plants would survive in here and would make the place look more welcoming, but what was he, a gardener? Either way his hand played with the water for a while, like he was a little child. He definitely wanted to get in there. Fuck! He could stay in there as long as he wanted without the water getting cold as it seemed right? He heard about those things, some hot whatever they were called, his father had talked about them, told him it was somewhat of a save haven for him when he had been in Thria, but that Yujin had one of those things in his castle and basically all to himself? Why didn't he show him that earlier?! Richards sleeve got wet, but he didn't care, instead he actually got rid of his clothes already.

    • Yujin didn't like the bath all that much, maybe because he was used to the cold or because all of this was just a tad bit too much in his own opinion, but his father was the one that thought he needed a fan, so he also needed this, didn't he? Who could blame this fanatic, really ... "You know you're not the only one that is going to get in this fucking pool of water and be naked while doing it, right? That's why", he chuckled and he wasn't even that wrong. Sure, princely privileges usually let someone use this thing alone, especially since it would be way too fucking awkward to share the tub, especially now that they weren't kids anymore, but Richard and him were pretty different, weren't they? And also, the blonde still owed him some fucking aftercare after that session yesterday, so Yujin would be grasping at any straw that he got his grubby hands on. Right about now, however, he rather watched Richard be mesmerized by the water and the warmth in here, prance around like a little kid, while he kicked his own boots and socks off and eventually loosened all those clothes he'd slipped into earlier. Shit, it was warm as all hell in here and it wouldn't get any colder than this, he fucking hated this place.

      The only redeeming thing about it all was the fact that the blonde now kneeled there, looking at the hot spring like a little kid and Yujin couldn't help but smile, even if the blonde didn't see it - actually, why would he? Instead, he slowly approached the blonde, stood behind him for a while, not long enough anyway, and then gave him a little push into the right direction - into the fucking water he was staring at. Yujin knew that that couldn't have hurt, the pool wasn't that shallow and the easy way to get in was on the other side, so there were no obstacles for Richard to actually hurt himself on. The wolf, on the other hand, took some of his clothing off, not all of it, and set down by the edge, holding his legs in to get acclimated to the stupid heat that would haunt him for some time. "I hope you can enjoy your bath", Yujin snickered, but that pretty much was just an invitation for a physical fight - one that hopefully wouldn't happen, but they'd see about that, wouldn't they? "Actually, how's the water down there? Aside from warm, that is." Wasn't he just urging Richard to beat him to the puilp? Probably.
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • "Oh shut up, the first time you visited me we got naked pretty much right away!", Richard complained and only then heard how ridiculous that sounded. But well... it was true. They fell off the cliff, into the icy water and when they came back, what else would they have done but get out of that frozen stiff clothes? Richard didn't even care back then and he didn't care now. People got naked, so what? Yujin should know that that was never too much of a problem for either of them. When Yujin stayed over because both of them were sick, they changed clothes right in front of each other too, so this was just a lazy excuse. He should have shown Richard this much earlier. Now he sat here all happy and mesmerized that the whole room felt warm. And it wasn't a crappy dried up air, it was humid and hot and great! His hair already formed tiny locks at the tips and the water had a great temperature. First finally some sleep, now this, knowing a fucking prince wasn't so bad, was it? And nobody had to do much to prepare this, it was just steaming hot on it's fucking own! He didn't ven notice when Yujin walked up to him and it was too late to get a hold of anything when Richard fell into the water head first, he hadn't even taken all his clothes off!

      When Richard came back to the surface, he probably looked like a swamp monster with his hair all over his fucking face. He glanced at Yujin, he was wrong if he thought Richard would just let this slide. "Why'd you do that?", he grumbled, his cloths were first flowing up, then slowly down when they got soaked enough. Not that he wanted to wear that on his way back home anyway, but still! At least they had somewhat of an excuse now? Richard slipped out of that stupid stuff, because it was hard to move in and then approached Yujin, who just sat there. He did it slowly, to not alarm him though. "I don't know... you tell me!", he yelled out and grabbed one of Yujins feet to force him into the water too. Actually he could have pulled harder, but he didn't want him to crack his head open, so he just suggested to him to come in, but when he didn't, Richard tugged Yujins leg under his arm to secure it and then started to just tickle his foot. "Tickling or water, you decide.", he announced over his shoulder. Fuck, why was this making him feel so damn good?

    • "Because we both fell off a cliff - but look how far we've come", he laughed. Richard wasn't wrong, they never had cared all that much about seeing - or not seeing - one another, but that was, without a doubt, just who they were, whatever that meant. Wasn't it good to get the blonde some enjoyment, though? Usually, he was always so uptight, as if he had a stick up his ass and when he didn't, he either was drunk, high or actually had something up his ass - in this case, none of that was applicable, he just seemed to be enjoying himself, which was odd for someone like Richard, someone he hadn't gotten to know any other way. "Why?", he chuckled as the drenched sea monster came up from the warm depths below. "No idea", he wanted to shrug it off just like that, but why did he actually do that? There had to be a reason, one way or the other and Richard was allowed to hear it, despite it probably being the silliest thing to ever leave the wolves lips, wouldn't that be? "I just felt like giving you a hand, you looked like you had a hard time deciding whether or not you'd want to get in right away - and we're both still ugly and disgusting, the water is gonna fix one of those things."

      Yujin wasn't going to let the blonde ever going to live down the fact that he'd called both of them ugly, but that was the sole thing he could do - the only thing and the only way to somehow come up with at least something that wasn't going to sound completely ridiculous and out of the ordinary. To be fair, maybe he'd have another reason soon enough, but until then, everything else was off the table. "Oh, hell no!", he yelled in return, wanted to pull back, but he couldn't, he already had been grabbed and that was that - fuck. Richard wasn't going to let him live that one down and this was, by far, the worst experience he'd have today, wouldn't it be? Now that his leg had been taken hostage, he actually started stripping off the remaining clothing from his upper body and threw it somewhere in the room. What was Richard ... "Pfff, haha, stooop!", he giggled - shit, he was ticklish? Right, that had to be one of Richards lucky guesses then, especially now that Yujin felt as if he had been caught red-handed. Containing his laughter was hard, but it was even harder to come up with something sufficient for the fact that he was, without a doubt, going to lose his mind if this went on. "Stop! I'll come in! Let go!", he urged his fellow wolf, but ... should he?
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • "Yeah so? We still could have hidden away, but we didn't. So that's an lazy ass excuse for not showing me an actual warm place in this fucking block of ice!", Richard complained even more, but he wasn't actually mad, he was way too excited, so much in fact that he asked himself if he still was baked somehow. Maybe not all of it washed out of his system. Either way, he liked this place - a lot. And he definitely wanted to come back here, but that meant he had to probably beg Yujin, didn't he? Oh he didn't want to give him some kind of power, but he probably already had, given how little he managed to contain his excitement. "I think you're out for a fight.", Richard concluded, why else would he have pushed him? Not that it had been bad in any kind, the water was warm, it wasn't like being pushed into a lake or the icy sea of Silesse. His body adapted to the temperature right away. Still this was something like a declaration for war, wasn't it? Richard had had a brother, he knew how these things worked. Fuck, no! He didn't want to think about him right now, even if it was unfair to Dayan.

      "My scar is safe behind my neckerchief, I'm the one who has to look at you all the time.", Richard snorted and now even Yujins neck was all messed up thanks to the blonde. Actually Richard didn't care about Yujins scars and he pretty much liked seeing those blue and red marks on his neck, maybe a little bit too much. He was proud of those. But for now none of this mattered, because both of them were at war right about now. Yujin found the time to undress in all of that, it almost made Richard mad, but the tickling stopped pretty much everything the wolf was able to do, right? Hearing him laugh and struggle like that was kind of fun, he was very ticklish, wasn't he? Richard didn't stop, at least until he heard Yujins voice again, but even then he continued tickling him. "You better! If you don't, I'll throw you in and I will tickle you even more!", he warned the wolf, tickled some more but then actually let go to give Yujin a chance to come in peacefully. He turned around to watch if he truly was, crossing his arms.

    • "You didn't ask and my body is pretty damn hot, too!", Yujin retaliated, but that hardly was a sufficient way to get Richard to hust up. If he was honest, maybe he'd never get him to shut that trap of his and the two of them would just be stuck doing the usual, running in circles, eventually starting some sort of bullshit argument and prancing around it until they either fucked one another or they found themselves punching the other square in the face. Whatever came first, Yujin didn't even want to think about it, but he had an idea. "Maybe I do, but even if I did, I don't need to admit it!" He sure as hell did admit to it just now, witht that stupid thing he had said and that, for one reason or the other, meant that he'd better get into that fucking pool of water soon or else the heat would get to his head and he'd be all sorts of confused in a few minutes, though, even worse than that was the thought that his fellow wolf would bash his nose right in again, because why wouldn't he and actually, why shouldn't he? They had already talked about this sometime, but ... nevermind, that didn't matter.

      "Take that thing off already! And fine, we're both ugly", Yujin chuckled, but he was the one that got relentlessly attacked as well. Richard was mean, especially when he figured out a weak point of his, and he'd continue assaulting him just like that because he could and because nothing was easier than that, wasn't it? Factually, he might as well have tried figuring things out first, but it was too late for that and he actually covered one of those stupid marks with his hand for a second - yup, that was a nice, lasting indent, or was it? It had to be the one where Richard had actually broken skin, but he couldn't focus on it for too long, not when he was being tickled like this and had to contain his laughter. "Fine, fine! No more tickling, I'll get in there!", he complied and once it all stopped, he actually took off his pants, threw them somewhere, slid into the pool and the first thing he could feel when he made himself smaller than he actually was, was the sting in the wounds that Richard had gifted him with - fucking bastard. Well, that was a good opportunity to ... Yujin dunked his own head underwater, but only to lean down, grab the blondes leg and then pull on it, before standing up himself - and there Richard went, now he had kind of fallen into water twice, didn't he? "Gotcha", Yujin laughed, but that only meant war.
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • "Pfff!", Richard let out, god damnit, did he just almost laugh? Either way, what kind of answer was that?! 'My body is pretty damn hot too', what the fuck? Actually it was... but that wasn't the point. "Why would I ask about something I don't know exists!", he retaliated, but he wasn't mad, not at all actually, although Yujin always seemed to tiptoe around him. Well he did break his nose, so... it was kind of understandable. "Yeah sure, I think you're always up for a fight.", Richard pointed out from within the water, making himself small so he was fully enveloped by the water. He liked it in here. Actually, he wasn't like Nayantai and he wasn't like Rain, right? He was more like his grandfather after which he was named too. The former king almost died in the cold, even in Myriads winter he'd always been cold, ever ysecond of the day he couldn't cuddle up to someone. On the other hand, Nayantai was just dying as soon as it got too warm. Myriads summers were challenging and their vacation at the beach in Lavern... well that had been something! Richard was different. Sure he was cold out here in Silesse sometimes, but it was okay, he didn't freeze his ass off as long as he didn't fall into icy water. But he also didn't die by a heatstroke when he was on a warm place such as this, or in Lavern or Olette. Actually that made him pretty damn resiliant, didn't it?

      "It stays on. What if someone comes in?", Richard refused to take his neckerchief of. Only because Yujin saw his neck once didn't mean Richard would run around with his scar out in the open everytime now. He still hated it, it was disgusting and reminded him of thing he didn't want to be reminded of, so enough with that topic! What was Yujin doing now? Exploring that hole in his skin? It probably hurt when touched, it was turning more blue by the minute, didn't it? Either way, the task at hand was war, war against Yujin who very much started the fight, but actually came in now. Richard seriously believed he had to catch and throw him in. Richard was content with him being inhere, but the next attack was due and Richard hated himself for not seeing it coming and soon enough found himself upside down under water. When he came up he grasped for air and then his gaze fell upon Yujin again. "Now I've had it with you!", he grumbled, but still, he wasn't actually mad, this was fun. Fucking hell, he actually had fun! How did that happen?! It only took some warm water and the right company, didn't it? Either way, fun didn't mean they were friends, because right now, they were enemies and Richard just tackled Yujin under water and then tried to get a hold of him, eventually lifting him up when he himself emerged from the water again, holding him like a princess and trying to keep him like this no matter how hard Yujin struggled. The bad thing was... there wasn't that much difference in their strength, was there? "Apologize!", Richard demanded, pretty sure that wouldn't happen and ready to just dunk Yujins head under water.

    • "What's so funny about that, huh!?", Yujin yelled, but he knew that his choice of words was probably not the best - he hadn't meant it like that, he was just always kind of warm and while the cold sometimes bothered him, too, he hated the heat even more than that. Richard was an idiot, but it was good to see him having fun and actually, the wolf didn't want to take that from him. "You could have asked to see the bathroom before!" That was true, but Richard wouldn't have known where that led and maybe there was no need to, either. They both had been pretty down yesterday, but in comparison, they were in high spirits today and that meant, they could have some fun, right? At least Richard seemed to be hellbent on playing war, which Yujin wasn't going to say no to, actually. "Me? Always? Who do you take me for?", the prince asked, faking the surprised tone in his voice. Sure, Richard only knew him for a good while, but that meant that he'd get to know some of the more important poarts of him later. One of them, as silly as it sounded, might as well be him, trying to make fun of everyone for everything and having his own kind of fun, somehow, some way - whatever that meant it was one way or the other.

      "We're alone in here and nobody is going to come in, you can trust me - and now get rid of that, it looks ridiculous", Yujin grumbled, but that was fake too, if Richard wanted to keep it on, he could, simply because it was besides the point to force him to do something if he clearly felt uncomfortable about that. The wolf was clearly thinking too much, it only took one short war cry - or rather a stupid explanation - and he suddenly was not only dunked, he also found himself in Richards arms and that, oh gods, this was ... fucking embarrassing! Not only was sitting on the blondes lap embarrassing, was this what Yin felt everytime someone picked her up? Shit, he was vulnerable like this and on full on display, too. "Apologize?", he suddenly asked, but he wasn't trying to escape anymore, instead, only a shiteating grin spread across his face. "Make me, then", he said, but he knew that there was no escaping Richards grip, which was why he tugged on the neckerchief of his - since this idiot wasn't taking it off - and also dunked Richards face back into the water, but instead, he used that other hand of his to shove it in said face. "How'd you like that?"
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • „You call yourself hot pretty often, do you seriously think so high of yourself?”, Richard asked. Actually, this wasn’t a real fight, he didn’t care what Yujin thought of himself and he didn’t want to seriously discuss if he was hot or not, this was just a game, but if anything, Richard was the hotter one of the two of them, right? Well, if nobody looked at his neck while judging. “Why the fuck would I ask to see our bathroom? You didn’t ask to see my bathroom either while you stayed in the hut!” Why would he even? Sure, Yujin lived in a castle, but that didn’t mean that Richard could have known his home had a fucking hot spring in the basement. Sure, last time he could have stayed for a bath, but he didn’t, maybe he should have… “For someone who’s out for trouble most of the time.”, Richard simply answered with almost a smile on his face. Well, a little fight never hurt anyone, especially when it wasn’t a real one, not taken out with fists, just water. And this wasn’t just some lake or the sea, it was actually damn warm and would stay that way. It was awesome.

      “Ridiculous?!”, Richard asked outraged. What? Like always? Or only now that he basically wore only that. Actually, he thought it looked at least kind of good and like a nice accessory and not as if he constantly was trying to hide something, or if he was just weird. That was also the reason he didn’t just wear a scarf but something more expensive looking. It also didn’t necessarily save him from the cold. “How do you know nobody is going to barge in here?”, he additionally asked. His girlfriend probably searched for him, why wouldn’t she look in here? And when she did, she was the last person who should see Richards scar, actually nobody should lay eyes on it, one nosy wolf was enough. Yujin had it coming that his head was forced under water. The wolfs dark hair was about everywhere and floated on the waters surface, wasn’t this going to get heavy? He stopped struggling, which was weird on its own. Of course he wouldn’t apologize though! “Hey!”, Richard yelled out when Yujin suddenly grabbed the fabric around his neck and also started to take revenge already. Well Richard did the same, just tilting Yujins body to the side to force him under water again, all the while biting in the hand that was fumbling around him.

    • "No, but I know you think that I'm hot but you'd never admit to it!, he informed Richard but really, what else could he do? Just thinking about it all was a bit of a hassle. Sure, they had their fair share of fun and sure, this had to be going somewhere eventually, but for now, they were at war and teasing ones opponent wasn't frowned upon, was it? Thankfully, that also meant that playing dirt wasn't entirely off the table just yet. "You needed a bath last time and instead of staying for one, you barged out and almost killed me for slapping that soft ass of yours", Yujin laughed, but he meant it - he didn't want to be murdered by Richard, not in a million years, but that didn't mean anything. "Why would I want to see a bath that's a pain to prepare, huh?", he inquired soon enough, but all of that was just a bit of teasing, mixed in alongside other things. Sure, they had their fair amount of fun and Yujin couldn't help but wonder how far he could drive Richard up the wall with all his teasing, but he'd find out soon enough. "Trouble? I think I'm more out for a good night than anything like that." The wolf should have just called it what it was - and in that case? It blatantly was sex, but Richard would murder him on the spot, probably.

      "Yes! Like, who on earth covers their fucking neck and wears nothing else? That's absolutely fucking ridiculous", he snickered, but he'd get payback for that, like he'd always do when the blonde was in the right mood. However, that just meant he'd have to be good at dodging, which definitely wasn't the case in their current situation - not like that. "Because even wolves have human decency - but if you'd like, I can get out and lock the door first, that way you'd feel safe, right?" That, however, meant that he'd have to get out of Richards grasp, which seemed impossible when both of them were already wet and any amount of struggling that he tried was futile - the blonde punk had an iron grip on him, somehow. "What h-", he wanted to yell out, but now he was the one that not only was dunked into water, he also felt teeth bite into his hand - Richard was going to die for that one. Yujin, eventually, came back up and welcomed the air floating into his lungs - he had taken his hands off of Richards stupid neck cloth thing and actually ... "REVENGE!", he suddenly screamed, leaned upward - and quite softly actually - bit Richard in the nose. What kind of revenge was that?
      Looking back, it maybe is like the toy carts you rode when you were a kid. But those toy carts could never go beyond the walls of the lawn. We want to follow the rugged concrete road beyond the wall. As we've grown, we've decided to leave behind the toy cart.

    • “I think you think I’m pretty hot.”, Richard retaliated instead commenting on Yujins hotness, he didn’t need to, that was stupid. But then again why would he sleep with someone that he didn’t think was attractive? He was, even though the few centimeters that Yujin was taller were annoying as hell. Anyway, maybe Richard just didn’t have high expectations and he took about anyone! There was nothing special about Yujin, right? And yet Richard always had to think back at their first time together in these moments, to how the wolf looked when he- fuck! “I didn’t know your bath was this awesome and I wanted to be alone!”, Richard grumbled and wasn’t sure at what exactly he was supposed to be angry right now. The fact that Yujin talked about the slap he gave him or the fact that he called his ass soft? Was that even an insult? It felt like one. “Don’t talk about my ass!”, he demanded, maybe Richard should just slap Yujins for a change. But then again, that was too… attached? Was it though? Richard was confused by all of this, the whole situation and their newly found relationship. Where they friends? Fuck buddies? Was he Yujins affair? “Why would I see a bath that is a pain to prepare? I didn’t know it’s actually not!”, he retaliated, Yujins arguments were stupid, weren’t they? “You’ve already had a good night and now it’s the middle of the day, so it’s more likely you want some kind of beef.”, Richard answered, but he truly thought that Yujin wanted a reason to be touched and maybe Richard wanted a reason to actually do that in disguise of a stupid childish fight. They were hopeless!

      “Fuck you! You’re ridiculous!”, he answered to Yujins snickering. He could have insulted his eyes but that felt wrong, though they probably upset him just as much as Richards scar, probably less. Why did he even let him talk to him like that? “You didn’t mind the first night we spent together.” Was that even a good argument? Ugh… What was this? Was Yujin growing accustomed to that ugly scar or did he just try to get Richard mad? Maybe he should have taken it off though, now it was all wet and he didn’t have a second one to hide all that when he went home eventually. “You mean if your girlfriend hears you chuckling like that in here, she wouldn’t just join?”, Richard asked raising an eyebrow. She didn’t need to be shy, right? “Either way! You wished I’d just let you go like that! Nice try!”, he answered. After dunking Yujin under water for a moment he helped him back up and catch some air, after all, he didn’t want to kill or even hurt him, this was just fun. But his help apparently wasn’t appreciated, because Yujin screamed for revenge. But that was not what he had anticipated… Yujin just slightly bit his fucking nose, what was that about? “Idiot…”, he commented and pulled back, then he actually suddenly let go of Yujin and helped his head under water once more.