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[There is really no logic that can explain this. With how Vidyadhara are, Dan Heng literally inhabits the body that once belonged to Dan Feng. His egg formed from the former High Elder's corpse.

But that's a bit beside the actual point, here. The point being that someone is in Dan Heng's bedroom, which, while it is technically not a bedroom and technically is a public amenity, still is left well enough alone while he's sleeping. The Nameless know to leave a resting Dan Heng well enough alone, given his position as the twitchiest member of the Astral Express Crew. So he's snapping fully awake when he hears the slightest movement, sitting abruptly upright to assess the situation.

The situation being that a far-too-familiar someone is standing in the Archive.

And since, as previously mentioned, there's no logic to it, Dan Heng just throws the whole idea out the window as another of his usual nightmares and dives for Cloud Piercer where it's propped against the console near the foot of his futon.]

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[dan heng can probably feel rather than hear the growl reverberating in dan feng’s chest, pressed close like this. he shifts so that he’s straddling dan heng properly, and he curls his tail sharply with his full strength so that both his and dan heng’s stay submerged in the water’s heat.

he might be panting a bit, right into dan heng’s pointy little ear, so obviously the correct decision is to suck a bruise right under it, in that soft vulnerable spot where jaw met ear.]

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[the rumble takes a few moments to process for him. he's far less in touch with their draconian roots than even most of their kind. but the panting, he gets right away, and the marking. it's a hell of a motion of trust, too, the way he tips his head to the side to give dan feng more room at his throat. this conversation started with cloud piercer leveled at him, after all.

but then he understands that what he's feeling is a growl, and that additional layer of lacking composure, in dan feng... it draws the softest little edge of a whine into his breathing, and his arms tugging at dan feng like there's much closer to even pull him.]

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[dan feng, of course, like all the creatures who once held his title, had a predator’s hearing; the hitch in dan heng’s breath makes the next bruising bite against his jugular have the dangerous touch of fang.

he pulls back slightly. dan feng’s eyes, which look dead on the best of days, are nearly one uniform shade of luminous teal, pupils dilated to broad ovals.]

I will ruin you, [he rumbles, before slotting their mouths together.]

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[dan heng, having very little in the way of actual experience, but being an avid reader, has absolutely been the kind of guy who gets thrown off by lines like that in sex scenes, not understanding the appeal. he gets it now. all internal criticism retracted. turns out it is incredibly sexy. especially right after feeling dan feng's teeth in his throat, another thing he previously would have slotted under Not Hot.

luckily that train of thought is derailed pretty much instantly by the kiss, dan heng surging into it with the eager enthusiasm of someone who has no clue what he's doing and knows he'll be bullied into learning if he just goes for it. dan feng's little successor might be a brat. congrats.]

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[fortunately for him dan fang has a wealth of experience on account of being hilariously insatiable and ‘dan feng you animal I am a short lifer and I have a refractory period have mercy on my old bones’.

he lets dan heng lick into his mouth, then gentles the kiss into something a little less hurried, a little more sensual.]

Mm. [he pulls back, more to let dan hang breathe, and he dips in close to kiss the corner of his mouth.] Have you done this before?

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[taking the guidance, letting dan feng gentle the kiss and withdraw. takes his allotted breaths, too.]

No.

[he is going to get so wrecked.]

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[there's a hand cradling his cheek, stroking his jaw.]

No? Not even through your cycles?

[wow like. he isnt bad looking at all. dan feng had it on very good authority that his face was attractive, the same way that all the imbibitor lunae's faces were.]

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[he just holes up away from anyone else and bears it, the madman. he's always counted himself very lucky that Blade has never shown up during those times.]

As far as anyone's concerned, I have a chronic condition that is conveniently predictable.

[leaning into that hand, casual, like he doesn't even have to think about it.]

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[the way dan heng so easily curls into his touch makes possessiveness flare up dark and sticky in his belly, but he tamps it down; it was the same shade as what drove him to do the things he did. he was aware that was not normal but-]

You fool. [he presses a kiss to his jaw to take away the sting.] It will get worse every time if you don't satisfy it.

[vidyadhara were barren like the rest of those who had Long's blessings, but they retained the vestiges of biological cycles - depending on what body parts they bore, they could have regular cycles of heat, or rut, or both. it was deeply annoying during the first seven centuries that dan feng was alive when he held fast to his asceticism, and then deeply satisfying afterwards, after yingxing. so he knew intimately how bad it could get.]

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[the little kiss does a fine job keeping him from actually getting cranky. well done. he just sighs and tips his head to nuzzle at dan feng's jaw in turn.]

Every time feels like the worst time, anyway. It doesn't matter if it's true.

[even that claim isn't quite true- but it's hard to do much worse than having one's first heat in corallium chains in the Shackling Prison, utterly alone. there's no need to get into that moodkiller.]

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[if this was dan heng's first time then- well. hopefully it would not trigger one of his cycles; it would be devastating. (hopefully this did not also trigger one of dan feng's cycles, because the nails staked through him suppressed those too, for centuries.)]

You are so stubborn. [he can see how it could be endearing but right now it just makes him want to bite dan heng. instead, he gently tips dan heng's face back up - and thumbs his plush lower lip.] Listen to your elders.

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[in before absolutely no one can be in the same train car as them.

he's stubborn, yes, but also sassy. rather than open his mouth to comment on why listening to his elders has never been a terribly appealing prospect based on his life, he simply raises an eyebrow and opens his mouth to lick that thumb.]

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[oh.

dan feng's eyes darken. he watches dan heng's mouth hungrily, before withdrawing his thumb. two fingers then rest against his lips, much like the same way.]

Open.

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[being a nerd who deals with his urges by reading so much smut appears to be helping his case here. score.

that tongue flicks out again, to wet his own lips, just barely brushing against dan feng's fingers, then he parts his lips.]

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[??????? has he really not done this before? Is he just really that much of a brat???

there’s that low, rumbling growl again, as dan feng slowly pushes his fingers in, petting his tongue, just barely until the first sign of gagging.]

Keep it open.

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[the internet is really really great... 🎶

it's awkward. the reality of it, while attractive, is something he hasn't had to deal with, but he keeps his mouth open as steadily as he can, swallowing repeatedly after his gag reflex first triggers.]

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You have no idea how delectable you look right now.

[dan feng’s voice has gone rough around the edges. his other hand drifts down, wrapping lightly around the base of his neck.]

Suck.

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[that hand is a surprise, but one he quickly finds he doesn't mind. not when dan feng sounds like that. not when dan feng's teeth at his throat were only attractive.

he starts sucking.]

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[the inexperience is obvious, but so is the enthusiasm. the hand around his throat curls tight briefly - a warning - before he trails a finger down dan heng's sternum.

and he does two things in quick succession: he splays his hand, warm and firm, over dan heng's breastbone, and he rolls his hips hard, grinding their crotches together. he can already feel one of his cocks filling out past the sheathe, trying hard as he had been to control himself.]

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[dan heng hums a baffled little sound, questioning, past dan feng's fingers when the hand around his throat loosens. warning noted, but what even about? buddy?

not that he has a lot of time to wonder, with the twin distractions of the hand's new resting place and the sudden intense pressure and friction against his tender vent, already struggling as it is to contain his lengths. he's forgetting to keep sucking, a throaty moan rumbling around those fingers instead.]

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[dan heng is so responsive, it's intoxicating.]

What did I say? Look at me. [that hand shifts ever-so-gently to the side, groping, ghosting over a nipple.]

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[his eyes open again, gaze snapping to meet dan feng's. a split second later, he resumes sucking, fluttering his tongue against the underside of those fingers as if in apology.

with their eyes locked like this, dan feng can see the startled little moment dan heng realizes his nipples are sensitive, as if the defined muscle of his chest weren't already appealing enough.]

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[the smirk on his face is one hundred percent imperious high elder.

he then makes the executive decision to try and hoist dan heng up and out of the water, to settle him on the edge of the tub. it's extravagant enough that it reminds him of his own baths in the vidyadhara compound.]

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[??!?

that is a different kind of manhandling! he startles, tail clinging to dan feng's even more as he's moved, scales rubbing scales. he doesn't actually fight it, though, letting his hands drop to dan feng's shoulders to steady himself as the goosebumps of being sentenced to comparatively cold air start to kick in.]

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I have you.

[dan feng's tail curls around dan heng's back, bracing him even as it's twined around its twin: an appendage of many talents.

this is because he puts his hands on dan heng's hipbones, and his mouth on dan heng's collarbone, sucking a constellation of bruises down just shy of that pert nipple.]