Tytiana by Marc Secchia

Author:Marc Secchia [Secchia, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Published: 2019-04-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18: All in a Day’s Piracy

“EH?” JAKANI SQUEAKED.

The Choice clapped her hands over her mouth. Clearly, she could not believe what she had just shouted. Nor could he. Kiss her? What? No! He was an honourable man! He was not about to take advantage of being trapped together with the heiress to steal kisses like a couple of teenagers canoodling behind a hut. Besides, it was more than forbidden. His entire world would turn upside down if he committed such a crime. Wouldn’t the Islands themselves rise up and hurl him into the depths of the Cloudlands, where scum like him belonged? Would the very stones not rise up to crush his offensive bones, and the boughs of the trees whip his accursed body to a pulp?

But she was beautiful, and never more so than right now, when every inch of her visible skin was pulsating the rich, rubescent colours of her mortification, yet he knew a truth had slipped free. Oh, she was a living dream. A walking, breathing enchantment of fire and irresistible magic.

“I … I didn’t just say that,” she gasped at last.

“Liar.”

“I … Jakani! Please …”

“You said –”

“Dashed dandy Dragons dance delightfully!” she yelled.

“Huh? I could have sworn I heard –”

Hands clapped over ears, she cried, “I’m not listening!”

“Good, because neither am I.” He placed his hands on his hips, tried for his most insouciant smile and hoped to heavens it did not come across as a piratical sneer, and said in a singsong voice, “Tytiana wants to kiss me. Tytiana wants to –”

“I most certainly do not! I said I might need to. There’s a difference – you know, between wants and needs, and that is a concept which is perfectly common to all Humankind. I also need some air.” She fanned her face dramatically. “Is the lava making it really crazy hot in here? I said I think we might need to do that … what I said … so that we can escape from this cage. That’s all I was thinking.”

“Same result, right? Need, want – kiss.”

“Jakani, you – you smarmy slug, you wipe that smirk off your face right now!”

“Oh, was I smirking? Must have been because the most gorgeous girl in the entire freaking Island-World wants to –”

“Needs! I said needs!”

“Alright, the Choice of the House has needs. Mmm.” He puckered his lips and made a few smacking noises. “How’s the temperature coming on over there? Suitably steamy?”

Tytiana buried her face in her hands, shaking with laughter or crying, he did not quite know which. Everything with her was so alarming and vehement – and Jakani had to pinch himself. Just a second, man! This meant she felt the same way he did! Ignoring that actually quite revealing drivel about wants and needs, and the minor fact that nothing in either of their cultures allowed either of them to actually commit such a heinous transgression, the truth staggered him. How could she want him? He was unworthy! Lamko filth! And she was glorious beyond words or hope or any ideas he should rightly entertain.

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