01 - Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Author:Kristin Cashore
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck

and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her

breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made

together.

———

They lay afterward, warmed by each other and by the heat of the fire. She touched his nose and his mouth. She played with the hoops in his

ears. He held her and kissed her, and his eyes flickered into hers.

“Are you al right?” he asked.

She laughed. “I have not lost myself. And you?”

He smiled. “I’m very happy.”

She traced the line of his jaw to his ear and down to his shoulder. She touched the markings that ringed his arms.

“And Raffin thought we’d end this way, too,” she said. “Apparently, I’m the only one who didn’t see it coming.”

“Raffin wil make a very good king,” Po said, and she laughed again, and rested her head in the crook of his arm.

“Let’s pick up the pace tomorrow,” she said, thinking of men who were not good kings.

“Yes, al right. Are you in pain stil ?”

“No.”

“Why do you suppose it happens that way? Why does a woman feel that pain?”

She had no answer to that. Women felt it, that was al she knew. “Let me clean your hand,” she said.

“I’l clean you first.”

She shivered as he left her to go to the fire, and find water and cloths. He leaned into the light, and brightness and shadows moved across his

body. He was beautiful. She admired him, and he flashed a grin at her. Almost as beautiful as you are conceited, she thought at him, and he

laughed out loud.

It struck her that this should feel strange, to be lying here, watching him, teasing him. To have done what they’d done, and be what they’d

become. But instead it felt natural and comfortable. Inevitable. And only the smal est bit terrifying.

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