No Grace for Doves.

[Anonymous]

Rai'nish pursed her lips and smiled at him. What a light weight. Sure she felt a little dizzy, but it was the brain sloshly kind. Where everything was cool, the world was right and everything tingled. Esspecially her one boob.

She frowned and looked down. Oh, it was a hand. "Heeeey." She pat at his hand to make him pull it back. "Just because I'm not a man doesn't mean they're too big." Rai'nish almost pouted, looked down at her chest. It wasn't too big! If anything it was too small! Only a little dizzy herself she slid off of her seat and moved closer to Dram. "hey, hey Cap'n." Her voice was hushed, "Lets get you to your sleepy-place."

Rai'nish poked her head around before she wrapped an arm around Drams back, ready to sort of maybe try to support his weight. "If we go soon I'll even let you touch my boobs more!" Even if that wasn't really incentive considering he liked men anyway. But it was worth a try.

[Lion]

Dram couldn't hold his liquor well and he knew it.  Furthermore only an idiot tried to drink hard and heavy when they knew they got drunk easily, especially when said idiot tried to challenge a woman that drank with the big boys.  He was a big boy!  He was!  He could drink with the best of them!  Or maybe he was trying to compensate his dignity with stupidity.  Her breaking his three minute obsctacle course record did not sit well with him at all.

Dram felt like falling over, even with the few drinks he had.  His hand slipped away when she brushed it away and landed lazily on the table, banging the glasses and making one spill over.  He was breathing softly and grunted when she moved closer, uncomfortable but he stood when she coaxed him and he nodded like a dumb, drunk bum.  "Sleeping....er, quarters," he slurred.  "Are...er this way.   I think."

Dram didn't really catch that last part, he was too busy trying to keep his balance, but he held onto her anyway and steadied himself as well as he could.  Still his feet staggered out of the bar and to where his own private quarters were.  Something about boobs rung in his mind and he groaned like he was too tired to care.  "Boobs...ha..." he laughed.

They soon made it to the wide, expanded tent and he stumbled through the flap.  There a comfortable cot awaited him that he tried to walk over to, he sat down, holding his head.  His quarters were simple and almost bare except for a few cushions and a place to drink and a large trunk where he kept his personal things.  He looked up and pointed to the tent flap when she entered.  "Close the clasps, shut.  Err....just button them up I think."  Boy his head was really turning about.

[Anonymous]

Hmm.

She was in his tent.

And he had a nice butt.

And he was pretty drunk. Rai'nish smirked and wandered over to fix up the flap-things, bending over to put on a sort of show. Once those were done up she stood up and looked around, almost disappointed by how bare it was. Dram was obviously a ... Not a nice guy. Or something.

Poor guy. He had a hard day. First she out ran his time, and then she out drank him and she even managed to hit him a few times with those stick-things! Which reminded her that her helberd was still out there somewhere. Probably stolen by now. Damn bandits. "So." Rai'nish put her hands on her hips and stood directly in front of Dram. "Did you have any other tests of stamina in mind or was the drinking the last one?"

[Lion]

No...not really.  He wasn't that much of a nice guy.  Dram didn't have many friends outside those of the bandit headquarters.  Not that he could afford to have friends.  People weren't exactly about to get in a friendly mood when you stole things from them.  So there weren't many visitors that were constantly coming out or in of his tent, aside from the usual suspects.  And everyone knew not to bother him when he'd been drinking.

Dram took a deep breath and tried to clear his head, slapping his cheeks and rubbing his face to make sure the butt he was staring at while she closed the tent flaps was real and not just a figment of his imagination and his face was starting to feel really warm.  He blinked and looked at her, recalling how she closed them from this side, and not the other side.  Oh that's right, he forgot to tell her to leave.  Well, he could do that in the morning.  He blinked again.  She was still here...  It wasn't morning yet?

Right right...  Stamina, something about stamina.  Dram grinned at her and stared at her chest.  "What dya mean?  Like running?  We can't run in here.  Not...enough room!  Unless you're talking like wrestling?  There's plenty of room for that...."  Stamina, wrestling took stamina right?  He hiccuped.  Psht, she'd probably beat him at that too though.

[Anonymous]

Rai'nish felt her mouth drop open and she stared down at Dram. Maybe he was more far gone than she thought. Which meant an actual conscious agreenment to knocking boots was out of the question. But, say  he didn't remember everything while he was wasted. Now, that could make for an interesting story to tell the next morning.

The grin on her face felt more devilish than she'd hope it looked. But she took Drams arms and gently guided them so his hands rested at the top of her bottom and she moved closer, resting her knees on to the bed so his face was nearly smooshed against her chest. Then she pushed him so his back would hit the bed. And then she sat on his lap.

"I'm more awake so I get an advantage." Her mind was working like the insides of a pocket watch and she wriggled on his lap before she rolled off so she was laying beside him. She was evil! Genius! And kinda tired. "If we're going to have a sleep over after we wrestle you should know that I sleep naked."

[Lion]

There was a woman...in his tent.  That never happened.  Dram was still trying to figure that out when he suddenly got a facefull of boobs and he had to turn his face away so that he could breath.  He gasped in sharply and confirmed in his mind that they were indeed too big.

He fall on his back and closed his eyes at the sensations on his legs.  What the hell was going on?  This wasn't wrestling at all!  Unless...she meant naked wrestling.  Dram's eyes snapped open.  Was that what she meant.  He could do that.  Dram crawled over to her, if a little dizzily and looked her in the eye.  "What a coincidence.  I sleep naked too."  He wasn't kidding, but the smile on his face might have sent the wrong message.

"If we're gonna do this,  you're gonna have to take your shirt off too," he said as he sat back on his legs.

[Anonymous]

Creepy.

Rai'nish decided Dram looked creepy when he smiled. Kinda hot when he frowned. Maybe it was that scar. Rai tilted her head to the side, her hair falling behind her like a big cloud of blue needed-to-be-brushed hair.

Without any questions Rai removed her top and then gave a stretched and a yawn, and then she crawled ever closer. And what was supposed to be a heated kiss that led to other unspeakable things turned into a rather violent headbutt that she yelped and reeled away from with her hands over her forehead and her eyes while she hissed quiet noises that sounded like 'ow'.

[Lion]

In a flash of blinding white, the last thing Dram remembered was a top coming off and soon he was out fast on the bed, the drinking at last having done him in.  Okay maybe the headbutt helped too, but he didn't know wherefore or why he was suddenly unconscious.  Just that he was asleep and sleeping soundly at that.  The cot never felt so comfortable before nor so warm, almost as if there was another body in there, but that was completely ridiculous because NOBODY ever went in his tent bother him.  Why would somebody want to share his cot?

Well, the only solution was find that out in the morning, which he preferred would come a lot sooner rather than later.  He wasn't used to having to share his quarters and he wasn't sure he liked it.

[Anonymous]

One second he was awake. The next... He was... Not so awake. Almost peaceful really. Damn. Rai'nish sighed and stared down at her sleeping Cap'n. Good thing he mentioned he liked sleeping naked, otherwise she'd have tucked him in with his clothes on! And then he'd wake up grumpier than he was already going to.

She knew he'd be grumpy. He seemed like the type to always be grumpy. Maybe it was because his skull was made of metal. Rai'nish rubbed her forehead and went about the perfunctory going abouts of undressing her poor wasted cap'n and tucking him into his cot. From a soldiers point of view, he was a well build solid man. From a womans point of view, she very much wanted a peice of 'dat ass'. Maybe later.

The idea of taking advantage drifted through her brain but she thought better of it, she'd already tucked him into bed and it'd be a waste to ruin it. Her top was off, the sun was down and there was a single candle lit. After she removed her own clothing, folding it neatly and tucking it beside her boots politely, she cuddled up against her sleeping cap'n and made sure the lonely candle wouldn't do a suicide mission and light the whole tent on fire.

She placed a chaste kiss on his cheek, sure he was a jerk, but he was so endearingly awful at everything! The sounds of birds chirping and the heat of the sun through the tent woke her up, a mild headache but the hand she had tucked between her thighs (lower thighs, not upper!) wasn't hers and the arm her arms were wrapped around wasn't hers. And the shoulder her head was pillowed on wasn't a shoulder.

It wasn't until she saw the shock of red hair that she remembered. She'd used her dear Cap'n Dram as a body pillow all night. Hm. It would take some effort to sneak out, and she'd managed to carefully unwrap herself from his arm before she heard any change in breathing. And she froze, and waited.

[Lion]

He must have been slamming his head against the wall or some hammers or something because his head was pounding like it'd been to a blacksmith's shop, dashed against an anvil.  His head throbbed and ached at the slightest sound and while he was a very light sleeper, he sensed movement beside him.  Who the hell was in here?

"ooooooh," he groaned in displeasure, a great deal of it in fact.  "My head is fucking aching....."  He massaged his temples and finally opened his eyes, letting his vision focus in before he sniffed and saw someone sitting beside him. Oh it was just the new recruit.  What was her name again?  Oh, Rai, that's right.  And she was naked.  Why was she naked?  Hm, curious.

He looked down, seeing he was naked too.  That was even more curious than why she was naked.  He blinked and suddenly inhaled sharply as the realization started settling in.  "Holy fuck! Holy FUCK!  HOLY FUCK!  We had sex?  We had SEX?  WE HAD SEX!!!  WHY?  WHY DID WE HAVE SEX?"  Dram stared at her horrified and unsure what to say next, but one thing was sure on his mind.  He had sex.

[Anonymous]

Rai's mouth fell into a little 'o' shape and she kept it like that because his reaction was priceless. Instead of crossing her arms over her chest in a modest manner, she held them both by her head in a 'hey I have no weapons' display. Because she didn't. Well, any physical weapons.

Knowledge could be a weapon. Rai'nish could end everything right there by telling him that no, they didn't have sex. He passed out after she tried to kiss him and then she was just too lazy to go back to her own bunk and didn't really care for modesty so she shucked her clothing after tucking him in.

But no. That would be easy. "Well." Rai'nish started, "You kept begging and begging so I finally said 'fine' and then we did it and then we fell asleep!"

[Lion]

"Begging?!" he was incredulous and could hardly believe what she was saying.  Who the hell did she think she was?  "Begging!?  No, no, no, no, no, no!  I don't beg.  You're mistaken you swine!  You took advantage of me!  I don't beg!"  He whined like a child and slammed his back down on the cot when his own voice was far too much for his own head.

He gripped his skull in agony and looked at her.  He'd been drinking again, he knew he'd been drinking again because his head never hurt this bad in the morning even when he'd taken a beating.  He didn't remember anything!  Maybe he did beg and she was all high and mighty enough to say yes and then they did it.  It was highly possible that she was right!

Dram looked at her with red, angry eyes, and his face was hot with embarrassment and shame.  "Oh, what have I done!?  This never happens...never!  This is all your fault, godsdamn you!  You got me drunk!  It has to be your fault!  Oh, shit, shit, shit, shit.  What am I gonna do!?  Well......" he sighed and tried to slow down his brain.  "Was I at least any good?"  He had his hands covering his face and he peeked at her through his fingers.

[Anonymous]

ooo. He was angry. It was then that Rai'nish decided that she was a bad, bad person. And she loved it. She didn't bother covering herself, if they'd done the nasty that meant he had his hands on her boobies, and there would be no point in covering them up now. The more he was convinced that she had her wicked wicked ways with him the funnier this would be down the line.

Assuming Dram had a sense of humour. She wasn't so sure yet.

It took a lot of will power to not burst out laughing when he peeked out through his fingers and asked her the age old question. Instead she kept her face straight and put her hands on her hips. "You were a tiger, Babe. A tiger." And she wiggled back and out of the bed and slowly put on her clothing, double checking all the clasps and ties before she went about putting her hair back up.

[Lion]

He burned with embarrassment and confusion and anger, a lot of anger.  He wouldn't be able to look at her in the eye with respect, and even if she irritated the hell out of him already, at least he'd been able to do that.  But no more.  What would Seranth say?  He knew King Hawk slept around whenever he wanted and with whomever, but Dram wasn't like that!  He prided himself in being tempered, restrained except where his temper was better used to solve matters.  He wasn't a manwhore!  But...she, treated him like one!

What would his troop say?  What would the other Hawk captains say!?  If they found out, that he slept with a recruit his career would be ruined!  Dram furrowed his brow in anger as he waited in every agonizing second for her reply.  Then she said what she thought and he groaned loudly as if she were stabbing a knife through his heart.  "Oh gods!  OH NO!!!"  It was worse than he imagined!  Nobody would find out!  They wouldn't!

Dram, face red and eyes shot with rage, his hands ready to strangle her if she dared to hold this over his head, stood straight up out of bed stark naked and grabbed her by the arm and yanked her close.  "Listen here, girly.  This doesn't not leave this tent!  If you so much as tell anybody we slept together, I'll cut your fucking head off!  You understand?  You better, or else.  Now get out of here before the scouts start the morning rounds!"  Pushing her toward the tent opening, to get her out of here as fast as possible.  This was the most humiliating thing that happened in his life by far!

[Anonymous]

Her jaw dropped down when he stood buck naked and she gave him an appreciative once over. She was almost afraid, almost and she had to not laugh with how mortified he seemed. She wasn't that bad looking! She was a good catch! Sure she was loud and a little annoying, but he could do much worse!

He could--- maybe. Rai stared at him while he ranted at her to get out of the tent flap. Maybe he was so horrified because she was a woman. And the idea of sleeping with a woman... "Did you only ever sleep with men before?"

[Lion]

This woman.  Was crazy.  Period.  There wasn't a doubt in his mind and his rage only compounded over itself like a backflip gone wrong and if he could kill her by looking at her, she'd be dead a thousand times over.

Dram's unclipped nails dug into the palms of his skin.  It wasn't just what she said...it was that she had the very gall to say it period!  She thought he was...he was... that he was gay!!!

"WHAT!  WHAT!?" he shouted at the top of his lungs.  He rushed over to his personal chest and tossed the lid open, pulling out his kopis and unsheathing the blade without so much as a second thought.  "NEVER...IN MY LIFE!"  He stalked back to her menacingly and crushed his mouth to hers in an angry kiss before giving her a shove through the tent flaps, opening them as they went through.  "GET OUT OF HERE!"  He raised his sword threateningly as he stepped out with her, still very naked and still very angry.

[Anonymous]

Okay, so maybe he hadn't been with men. She was even about to back up with her arms up, palms out to show that she wasn't a threat and that he should but his shiney sword-things away. Never in his life. Well, at least that explained why all the things she'd assumed sounded like loving men actually meant what they really meant.

Which was the not-loving men part. Whatever that was. She couldn't remember. Then there was a face very closed to hers and unfamiliar pressure on her lips and she was pushed backwards to which she moved with a yelp and stared wide eyed. Shocked. Silent. Sure he screamed at her some more and sure she had the upper hand because she was just shocked.

But really! Waving around a sword! Well, his sword-things. Whatever those were. "Well, Cap'n." Rai bowed politely, keeping her eyes on him. "You were good for a virgin and you're still naked, so you might want to get dressed before you start running around!" She eyed him before licking her lips and blowing him a kiss before she slowly backed away, still facing him. Just in case.

[Lion]

Dram was seething!  Clearly and thoroughly well over pissed off.  He didn't even know how he could still be breathing by the sudden hotness of his skin from all that anger.  She was dead!  MORE THAN DEAD!  Double dead!  If that was even possible.

He noticed her words and looked down and seeing that his bits were still exposed.  She was right, the little shit and blushed harshly and visibly when the eyes of scouts came to look at him.  He turned around, ashamed, humiliated, and naked.  "What the hell are you all looking at, worms!!!!!?"  he said before running back through the tent flap.  This wasn't good.  Not at all.

Oh he was more than humiliated.  He wanted to die!  He could just end it all right now, he thought as he stared at the sword.  He was desperate and pissed and even more desperate.   But he put the sword away bitterly and thought he wanted to cry a little bit.  But he was Dram, he was a man.  He didn't cry if he didn't have to....  So he sucked it up and got dressed, not appearing outside the tent until a half an hour later.  If everyone was smart enough, they'd mind their own business and not speak of what they'd just seen.  But smarts were in short supply these days.

[Anonymous]

Sure there was a very occasional hoot or holler. But Rai didn't pay attention to it, that'd be silly. They died down when Dram was near by and Rai was quick to skirt behind an edge or duck behind a bush or hide behind a tree . That only lasted a few hours and it was a lunch-ish time before she meandered her way over to Dram to stand directly beside him, ready to dodge some flying limb that might possibly have been aimed for something that would hurt later. "So.  Cap'n. I need to talk to you about something important."

[Lion]

Dram munched thoughtlessly and kept to himself.  Nobody approached him all morning and everyone shut up, just like the look in his eyes told him to.  He wasn't in any mood to be fussed with today and he certainly wasn't going to take anyone's bullshit.  The only ones he talked to all day besides that little rat-bitch of a recruit was a few of the scouts.  But even those knew to keep their phrases laconic and to the point.

He did not, of all things, expect to hear Rai's voice again the rest of the day and he froze in sheer shock that she'd have the audacity to come up to him once again.  Something important, eh...  Dram snarled as he turned to face her.  "You've got a lot of nerve showing your face after what you did.  I have half a mind to throw you right out of this camp....and maybe I should.  If you've got something to say, make it quick, I don't need to be seen with the likes of you for more than a few seconds at a time!  Hell only knows what everyone is saying already."