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SEPTEMBER 2024 TDM: LUGHNASADH
Welcome to SALTBURNT, a panfandom smut/thriller game based off the film Saltburn, where characters are encouraged to indulge their deepest desires. The money never runs out and the liquor never stops pouring, so you may as well indulge from the bounty. Of course, things are rarely what they seem, and the manor itself seems to have a consciousness of its own. Throw parties, trash the house, engage in youthful merriment, but remember β dangers come out at night, and no one, no matter how rich you are, is safe from demons lurking in the shadows.
Threads can be considered game canon, provided the players agree. Players can also start fresh upon acceptance into the game. In game characters can post to the TDM directly, using Β« NEW CHARACTER/IN GAMEΒ» in the header. There will be a spot below for new characters to link their toplevels for easy access. Alternatively, prompts on the Test Drive can be used for in game logs.
WELCOME TO SALTBURNT
It's the hangover more than the light streaming in through half drawn curtains that wakes you up, your brain rattling in your skull, your mouth dry and cottony, your stomach churning with whatever it is you drank last night. If self preservation is your strong suit, you might turn over in bed and see a few painkillers laid out for you on a silver dish, accompanied by a glass of water. If it isnβt, stay in bed and wallow β eventually a maid will be in to tear your curtains open, saying, "Breakfast is served," and scurrying out quietly, invisibly. Breakfast? Maybe itβs normal for you. Maybe it isnβt.
You're drawn from the room, either by the mystery, or an undefinable urge that could be supernatural in origin, or could be your hunger catching up to you. It's almost nostalgic, the walk to the dining room β have you been here before? Were you drawn up to this estate in a car? Havenβt you done all this already? Maybe you mosey around a library, maybe you run into your suite mate in your adjoining bathroom. Regardless, seemingly all hallways, covered in priceless artworks and ancient relics from times long past, lead to the dining room, where a comically long table houses the Balfours and their many guests, some who seem just as disgruntled and confused as you. No matter. "Breakfast will be out in a minute," they say. What's that?
EDIT SEPTEMBER 2024: For those who have attended breakfast with the Balfours before, a change in routine might come as a shock, given how rarely they stray from form. However, as of September, CARMY BERZATTO has taken over Head Chef position, alongside his cousin RICHIE JERIMOVICH and always the bridesmaid never the bride, SANJI. In place of the self-serve style breakfast, there is an elevated menu, including: a self-serve juice bar, with pitchers of various juiced fruit and vegetables, shaved ice, coconut water, green and black tea syrups, potted microherbs, sliced whole berries, and finger limes. There is also, naturally, liquor and champagne available. Guests can make their own drinks, or ask the allocated staff member to serve them one of the "specials" if they're feeling adventurous.
πππ πππππ: one runny boiled egg shelled and recoated in edible gold leaf, seated on a throne of fried bread soldiers, plated with whipped butter and italian parsley.
ππππ ππππππππ: vinegar poached eggs with hollandaise foam on a bed of toasted freekah and baby spinach.
ππππ πππππππππππ: two eggs poached in a ramekin of pureed tomato, served with a crispy grilled cheese cut to dip.
πππ ππππππ: french omelette with a light cheese filling, topped with crushed potato chips and chives.
ππππ π πππππππππ: fluffy scrambled eggs in brown butter, served on sourdough.
πππππππ ππππ: mini-quiche made with caramelized red onions and jamon pata negra ham.
πππ ππππππππππ: bacon, egg, cheese and sausage breakfast muffin that tastes weirdly like it was made at a popular chain with golden arches.
β momofuku's "cereal milk" β
β fette biscottate with a sour cherry jam and peanut floss β
β a warm cinnamon bun served with a shot of espresso coffee for dipping β
β a macadamia-marzipan croissant with a wattleseed and burnt-honey filling β
β poffertjes with a liquid nutella injection β
If you want to leave, youβll have to tell Giles, the housekeeper, who will arrange a car for you that mysteriously, or perhaps suspiciously, never arrives. Unfortunately, confronting Giles about it is near impossible, as heβs as good at being invisible as the rest of the house staff. Of course, thereβs no reason why you canβt just walk out. The front gates are easy enough to jump over, even if the walk towards them gives you a strange sense of foreboding, or just outright discomfort, as if the ground itself doesnβt want you to leave. Those more sensitive or fragile might find they canβt make the jump, no matter how physically able, or desperately wanting. Still, a strong person could continue on, over the fence and into the lush English countryside. The feeling doesnβt dissipate, though β this sense of wrongness, almost sickness, like a weight on your back. Walk into the evergreen, carry on, but the strongest will make it perhaps a mile or so before the weight of dread and paranoia brings you to your knees, and then to your face, flat in the middle of a dirt road. What were you thinking? Is this really better?
Wake up with a hangover, in a bed, the curtains drawn, the maid saying, "Breakfast is served," before scurrying out. The painkillers are there, just like you remember. In fact, itβs all exactly how you remember, as if you never left an imprint the first time, or any mess you made was cleared away while your back was turned. Walk to the dining room, find everyone there eating away at their breakfast.
"We dress for dinner," says Portia, with a kind, if discerning smile. "Black tie."
You're drawn from the room, either by the mystery, or an undefinable urge that could be supernatural in origin, or could be your hunger catching up to you. It's almost nostalgic, the walk to the dining room β have you been here before? Were you drawn up to this estate in a car? Havenβt you done all this already? Maybe you mosey around a library, maybe you run into your suite mate in your adjoining bathroom. Regardless, seemingly all hallways, covered in priceless artworks and ancient relics from times long past, lead to the dining room, where a comically long table houses the Balfours and their many guests, some who seem just as disgruntled and confused as you. No matter. "Breakfast will be out in a minute," they say. What's that?
EDIT SEPTEMBER 2024: For those who have attended breakfast with the Balfours before, a change in routine might come as a shock, given how rarely they stray from form. However, as of September, CARMY BERZATTO has taken over Head Chef position, alongside his cousin RICHIE JERIMOVICH and always the bridesmaid never the bride, SANJI. In place of the self-serve style breakfast, there is an elevated menu, including: a self-serve juice bar, with pitchers of various juiced fruit and vegetables, shaved ice, coconut water, green and black tea syrups, potted microherbs, sliced whole berries, and finger limes. There is also, naturally, liquor and champagne available. Guests can make their own drinks, or ask the allocated staff member to serve them one of the "specials" if they're feeling adventurous.
That said, these are world class chefs, so the gold is really in the menu:
THE EGGS
πππ πππππ: one runny boiled egg shelled and recoated in edible gold leaf, seated on a throne of fried bread soldiers, plated with whipped butter and italian parsley.
ππππ ππππππππ: vinegar poached eggs with hollandaise foam on a bed of toasted freekah and baby spinach.
ππππ πππππππππππ: two eggs poached in a ramekin of pureed tomato, served with a crispy grilled cheese cut to dip.
πππ ππππππ: french omelette with a light cheese filling, topped with crushed potato chips and chives.
ππππ π πππππππππ: fluffy scrambled eggs in brown butter, served on sourdough.
πππππππ ππππ: mini-quiche made with caramelized red onions and jamon pata negra ham.
πππ ππππππππππ: bacon, egg, cheese and sausage breakfast muffin that tastes weirdly like it was made at a popular chain with golden arches.
THE SWEETS
β fette biscottate with a sour cherry jam and peanut floss β
β a warm cinnamon bun served with a shot of espresso coffee for dipping β
β a macadamia-marzipan croissant with a wattleseed and burnt-honey filling β
β poffertjes with a liquid nutella injection β
If you want to leave, youβll have to tell Giles, the housekeeper, who will arrange a car for you that mysteriously, or perhaps suspiciously, never arrives. Unfortunately, confronting Giles about it is near impossible, as heβs as good at being invisible as the rest of the house staff. Of course, thereβs no reason why you canβt just walk out. The front gates are easy enough to jump over, even if the walk towards them gives you a strange sense of foreboding, or just outright discomfort, as if the ground itself doesnβt want you to leave. Those more sensitive or fragile might find they canβt make the jump, no matter how physically able, or desperately wanting. Still, a strong person could continue on, over the fence and into the lush English countryside. The feeling doesnβt dissipate, though β this sense of wrongness, almost sickness, like a weight on your back. Walk into the evergreen, carry on, but the strongest will make it perhaps a mile or so before the weight of dread and paranoia brings you to your knees, and then to your face, flat in the middle of a dirt road. What were you thinking? Is this really better?
Wake up with a hangover, in a bed, the curtains drawn, the maid saying, "Breakfast is served," before scurrying out. The painkillers are there, just like you remember. In fact, itβs all exactly how you remember, as if you never left an imprint the first time, or any mess you made was cleared away while your back was turned. Walk to the dining room, find everyone there eating away at their breakfast.
"We dress for dinner," says Portia, with a kind, if discerning smile. "Black tie."
ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE
CONTENT WARNINGS: drugs, alcohol, nudity, potential for nsfw.
POOLSIDE PLAYLIST courtesy of Robin
It's an innocent enough, offhand suggestion from the mouth of one (1) DIARMUID about wanting to learn how to paint, and honestly, the house couldn't agree more: a party is necessary. As August winds down, it's important to go out with a bang, and what better way than through an explosive end of summer pool party? To say goodbye to the waning summer nights, the manor is throwing a pool party with an artistic neon twist. Per the growing complications of everyone's relationship status in this new age of bisexuality, polygamy, and pegging, glow-in-the-dark bracelets with matching solo cups have been set out with the appropriate labels βΒ TAKEN, SINGLE, OPEN, and IT'S COMPLICATED, depending on your interest. Lounge by the water in your cutest bikini or trunks or nothing at all and engage in some very relaxing full-body painting using the supplies provided β that is, the paint is supplied, though brushes and sponges are few and far between. Better just to use your own body to paint your masterpiece. Put yourself on display as a model by the pool, or engage in a brutally competitive game of chicken fights, wherein the loser loses their clothes and the winner gets to keep them.
Not your style? Sneak off somewhere more private like the twinkling gardens illuminated with multicolored tiki lamps, lakeside decorated with bio-luminescent rocks, or the (perfectly safe, wolfless, we promise) maze to indulge in your inner desires. You might find that certain colors glow beneath the moonlight and unlock desires youβve kept tightly under lock and key. It's hard not to feel impulsive or unrestrained under the full moon's light, with your body paint as armor. People might appear more attractive to you under this witching light like a magic spell cast β but really, you havenβt had any trouble with that, here. Have you?
If youβre thirsty, the house has tasked RICHIE, CARMY, and SANJI (dressed as cabana boys) with an extensive poolside drinks menu, since theyβve been so helpful with breakfast. Thanks, boys. Ask them for anything. In fact, ask them for everything. They're here to serve.
As the night closes out, turn your eyes heavenward for a spectacular fireworks show. Many apologies to those of you who suffer from PTSD; you can head inside for an early night and cover your ears with a pillow, but do be careful not to suffocate yourself, unless you're into that. The fireworks shimmer and shatter, and those watching closely might start to see hidden messages written in the stars for you, though is that your eyes playing tricks? Better ask that friend youβre snuggled up with. As anxiety weighs a little heavier on your heart, you might feel compelled to confess a few secrets on this last night of summer, big or small, something loving or not. Seek out that destructive habit, or take some steps toward healing. Let the fireworks drown out the noise.
POOLSIDE PLAYLIST courtesy of Robin
It's an innocent enough, offhand suggestion from the mouth of one (1) DIARMUID about wanting to learn how to paint, and honestly, the house couldn't agree more: a party is necessary. As August winds down, it's important to go out with a bang, and what better way than through an explosive end of summer pool party? To say goodbye to the waning summer nights, the manor is throwing a pool party with an artistic neon twist. Per the growing complications of everyone's relationship status in this new age of bisexuality, polygamy, and pegging, glow-in-the-dark bracelets with matching solo cups have been set out with the appropriate labels βΒ TAKEN, SINGLE, OPEN, and IT'S COMPLICATED, depending on your interest. Lounge by the water in your cutest bikini or trunks or nothing at all and engage in some very relaxing full-body painting using the supplies provided β that is, the paint is supplied, though brushes and sponges are few and far between. Better just to use your own body to paint your masterpiece. Put yourself on display as a model by the pool, or engage in a brutally competitive game of chicken fights, wherein the loser loses their clothes and the winner gets to keep them.
Not your style? Sneak off somewhere more private like the twinkling gardens illuminated with multicolored tiki lamps, lakeside decorated with bio-luminescent rocks, or the (perfectly safe, wolfless, we promise) maze to indulge in your inner desires. You might find that certain colors glow beneath the moonlight and unlock desires youβve kept tightly under lock and key. It's hard not to feel impulsive or unrestrained under the full moon's light, with your body paint as armor. People might appear more attractive to you under this witching light like a magic spell cast β but really, you havenβt had any trouble with that, here. Have you?
If youβre thirsty, the house has tasked RICHIE, CARMY, and SANJI (dressed as cabana boys) with an extensive poolside drinks menu, since theyβve been so helpful with breakfast. Thanks, boys. Ask them for anything. In fact, ask them for everything. They're here to serve.
As the night closes out, turn your eyes heavenward for a spectacular fireworks show. Many apologies to those of you who suffer from PTSD; you can head inside for an early night and cover your ears with a pillow, but do be careful not to suffocate yourself, unless you're into that. The fireworks shimmer and shatter, and those watching closely might start to see hidden messages written in the stars for you, though is that your eyes playing tricks? Better ask that friend youβre snuggled up with. As anxiety weighs a little heavier on your heart, you might feel compelled to confess a few secrets on this last night of summer, big or small, something loving or not. Seek out that destructive habit, or take some steps toward healing. Let the fireworks drown out the noise.
FRUITS OF LABOUR
CONTENT WARNINGS: body horror, gore, cannibalism.
Saying goodbye to summer means welcoming in the new season, and as August nights turn into September mornings, the landscape of the grounds changes from verdant greens to egg yolk yellow and sunburnt orange, a gradient of autumnal colors. To that end, a week long festival erects outside to enjoy the last of the year's good weather β a generous harvest bounty fills up tables and tables of ample displays, full of ripened fruits and fresh baked breads, baked potatoes roasted in the coals of a bonfire, sausages, wheels of cheese, marshmallows, cider and apple juice, tomato soup, apple and blackberry compote, rhubarb crumble, all richly decorated in sunset hues. Among the servings, anyone with a birthday in August or September will find themselves a individualized cake, perhaps with some motif to define them, otherwise just with the harvest decorations of gourds, leaves, wheat, and fruit. Alongside that, a new smaller maze has been made from hay bales on the lawn. During the day it's just a silly and fun maze, but at night it takes on a new form and characters can easily become lost and find themselves in a maze that seems to go on forever, with the ominous lowing of a bull somewhere in the distance. Luckily, everyone is released at daybreak, maybe a little traumatized, but all in one piece.
What would a festival be, without some games to indulge in? Around the celebratory grounds, there are four pumpkins painted gold, hidden around the festival. Anyone who finds one is entitled to a boon from your very generous hosts (join the race HERE). Hunting not to your tastes after the last few goose chases? No worries, there's plenty still to do β from apple bobbing, jumping over bonfires, throwing discus/shotput, horseshoes, and more, it's a festival jam packed with games and prizes to be won, from little jars of handmade jam from France, to stuffed chicken plushies, to tin cans with the labels ripped off, full of ... well, it's anyone's guess, really. Crack it open and find out!
In honor of the handfasting ceremony, characters are selected at random and tied together at the wrist, much to everyone's amusement. Once knotted, the ribbon will not give way under any physical or magical duress, meaning you'll be stuck together until the tie undoes on its own. It could be day, a night, two nights, or more, but it seems like the ribbon is waiting for something in particular βΒ a genuine heart to heart, maybe? Consummating the marriage? Hopefully you like the person you're tied to, because you're going to be spending a lot of time with your temporary spouse, in immediately close quarters.
At the end of the week, there's a final end of summer ceremony, wherein the vampire ARMAND is given special homage for being an especially adored guest, donned in floral regalia and ordained with crowns of flowers, much to his growing malcontent. In fact, he and all the vampires present in house seem to be given the regal treatment from the staff with less grand flower crowns of their own, honored at the head of the festival's final gluttonous table, lined with naked, giggling bodies covered in autumnal produce, sprouting mushrooms, blooming flowers, and distinctly meaty dishes β steak and kidney pie, blood sausage, pumpkins stuffed with zebra meat. It's only after you drink the wildflower tea and locally (Very, Locally) crafted beer that things start to feel a little off. The happy bodies used as serving platters look sometimes, between one blink and the next, like masticated corpses, the gourds and fruits set more deeply in the cornucopia their opened chest cavities make. Despite that, there's no real sense of death in the air β get a better look, and you might find the veins of the dead work more like the vines for the plants, giving them life.
The question becomes: which is the hallucination? The smiling faces or the blooming corpses?
Though hysteria rankles through the crowd the more people come to terms with the visions they're seeing, given the population at the head of the table, it's a fairly easy riddle to crack. Can vampires eat the cursed food? In short: yes, they can. Sorry we made you eat people again.
Saying goodbye to summer means welcoming in the new season, and as August nights turn into September mornings, the landscape of the grounds changes from verdant greens to egg yolk yellow and sunburnt orange, a gradient of autumnal colors. To that end, a week long festival erects outside to enjoy the last of the year's good weather β a generous harvest bounty fills up tables and tables of ample displays, full of ripened fruits and fresh baked breads, baked potatoes roasted in the coals of a bonfire, sausages, wheels of cheese, marshmallows, cider and apple juice, tomato soup, apple and blackberry compote, rhubarb crumble, all richly decorated in sunset hues. Among the servings, anyone with a birthday in August or September will find themselves a individualized cake, perhaps with some motif to define them, otherwise just with the harvest decorations of gourds, leaves, wheat, and fruit. Alongside that, a new smaller maze has been made from hay bales on the lawn. During the day it's just a silly and fun maze, but at night it takes on a new form and characters can easily become lost and find themselves in a maze that seems to go on forever, with the ominous lowing of a bull somewhere in the distance. Luckily, everyone is released at daybreak, maybe a little traumatized, but all in one piece.
What would a festival be, without some games to indulge in? Around the celebratory grounds, there are four pumpkins painted gold, hidden around the festival. Anyone who finds one is entitled to a boon from your very generous hosts (join the race HERE). Hunting not to your tastes after the last few goose chases? No worries, there's plenty still to do β from apple bobbing, jumping over bonfires, throwing discus/shotput, horseshoes, and more, it's a festival jam packed with games and prizes to be won, from little jars of handmade jam from France, to stuffed chicken plushies, to tin cans with the labels ripped off, full of ... well, it's anyone's guess, really. Crack it open and find out!
In honor of the handfasting ceremony, characters are selected at random and tied together at the wrist, much to everyone's amusement. Once knotted, the ribbon will not give way under any physical or magical duress, meaning you'll be stuck together until the tie undoes on its own. It could be day, a night, two nights, or more, but it seems like the ribbon is waiting for something in particular βΒ a genuine heart to heart, maybe? Consummating the marriage? Hopefully you like the person you're tied to, because you're going to be spending a lot of time with your temporary spouse, in immediately close quarters.
At the end of the week, there's a final end of summer ceremony, wherein the vampire ARMAND is given special homage for being an especially adored guest, donned in floral regalia and ordained with crowns of flowers, much to his growing malcontent. In fact, he and all the vampires present in house seem to be given the regal treatment from the staff with less grand flower crowns of their own, honored at the head of the festival's final gluttonous table, lined with naked, giggling bodies covered in autumnal produce, sprouting mushrooms, blooming flowers, and distinctly meaty dishes β steak and kidney pie, blood sausage, pumpkins stuffed with zebra meat. It's only after you drink the wildflower tea and locally (Very, Locally) crafted beer that things start to feel a little off. The happy bodies used as serving platters look sometimes, between one blink and the next, like masticated corpses, the gourds and fruits set more deeply in the cornucopia their opened chest cavities make. Despite that, there's no real sense of death in the air β get a better look, and you might find the veins of the dead work more like the vines for the plants, giving them life.
The question becomes: which is the hallucination? The smiling faces or the blooming corpses?
Though hysteria rankles through the crowd the more people come to terms with the visions they're seeing, given the population at the head of the table, it's a fairly easy riddle to crack. Can vampires eat the cursed food? In short: yes, they can. Sorry we made you eat people again.
DIRECTORY
daemon targaryen π house of the dragon
gardens;
The gardens do bring Kingβs Landing to mind, and the mazes that made up part of the Keep β but Rhaenyra is lost in thought as she walks around the illuminated space, the purple bracelet slipped over her wrist even more noticeable while her arms are folded across the her front.
When she crosses into a greater clearing within the gardens proper, the sight of her husband, even from behind, stills her to a stop, and before she can think twice, Rhaenyra raises her voice to declare her presence, Valyrian syllables rolling over her tongue. ]
Are you real standing before me, and not some dream sent to give me false hope?
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Hearing her voice, seeing her approach him⦠The way his heart lifts is undeniable. For all that he might have craved her throne, her position, the strength of her claim and her promise, his desire for her is more paramount. He had seen what was to come, what would manifest if he found his place at her side, content in his adoration and his devotion to his queen.
Her tongue suits the language, as it always has, and Daemon turns to regard her fondly, a slight shift in his expression. His glass is placed aside as he walks to her, reaching to cup her cheek in a hand, to touch her skin and believe that she is real, no illusion made from tricks of the mind.
His wife, his queen, here with him in this strange place. A gift indeed. ]
If it be a dream, then it is one we share. [ Daemonβs thumb brushes over her lip gently. ] And one I would not wake from.
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Before, she had never been able to make Daemon see, to make him understand the importance of her claim, but even while she steadies herself unflinchingly before him, there's still a flicker of uncertainty in her gaze until his hand carefully, gently cups over her cheek. Then, and only then, does she let the guise of imperiousness slip, relief flooding into her expression, her hand instinctively rising for her fingers to curve around his wrist, above his sleeve. Holding him there, as he holds her. ]
Much is strange here. [ She has struggled to understand it all, even as she struggles with being prevented from leaving β from returning to what she is meant to do.
Yet now, she seeks the comfort that has been denied to her for so long, apart from that brief instant of solace with the last person she'd ever expected to find it in. Daemon's thumb traces the swell of her lip, and her lashes flutter. How easy it is, she thinks, for him to make room for himself inside her heart again as if he'd never left to begin with. ]
And your queen's bed has been empty. [ She finds she has less of an appetite for the revelry that the other guests here so often pursue, but that does not mean she burns with less of a desire to sate it. Knowing that she and Alicent somehow carry different memories, though, she offers that certainty to Daemon while also attempting to verify what he last recalls, her gaze open and seeking confirmation. ]
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But now there was him, and his wife, and a reeducation to a cause he knew he could follow without any more shame.
Daemon can be content with being at her side and watching her power, watching her rule. He will prove his loyalty to her, as will the thousands of men whose swords will fight for her claim.
Leaning in, their foreheads touch, his eyes closing briefly, his hands stroking over her skin. Knowing that she is here, that she is safe and returned to his arms is a sweet relief indeed, and he takes it with the contentment that comes from the simple adoration of his chosen wife, the woman he had claimed as his own for so, so many years. ]
Strange indeed, but better for the company offered.
[ Their noses brush, and he is tender with her, aching from the distance between, the anger that had burned a hot fire, so easily fizzled out. ]
An ill tiding for us both. What would my queen command of her consort?
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Standing before Daemon now brings her back to some semblance of self, a reminder of what remains at stake β and what they could stand to lose if she does not take steps to try and escape.
Before, she would not have initiated something so bold in front of all the men pledging fealty to her β she is meant to be a strong, unwavering queen, not a woman crumbling to pieces at the first display of affection from her consort. Yet she can be this privately with him, hidden in the gardens where no others are positioned to bear witness, and she can briefly cast off the weight of expectation in favor of claiming what is being offered to her now after the many days they had slept apart. ]
Not command. [ But she does allow herself to experience a frisson of pleasure at the notion that she could order him, and she wonders whether he might find himself enjoying that as well.
Instead, she surges forward to kiss him, much like the way she had on the shores of Driftmark, finally succumbing to the desire she'd attempted to repress after so many years. But there is more of a longing in it this time β a longing to return to what they'd once shared, despite broken trust that is only just beginning to repair. ]
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He will never be perfect, never be the kind of calm, peaceful ruler, but that is not a requirement. They are at war, now, and the dangerous edge of Daemon Targaryen is a requirement to ensure that his wife, his queen, is able to take the throne that is properly owed to her.
Leaning in, the quiet of the garden wrapping around them, one of his arms slips down to coil around her waist, to draw her body against his own, leaning in to nudge their noses together before he tilts into the kiss. It's as familiar to him as breathing now, the certainty of her lips and the shape of her form against his own, years of longing still echoing between them that echoes with the sharpness of adoration.
The kiss deepens, easily enough, his fingers raising up to sink into her hair, to scrape his teeth along her mouth and show her his devotion, his desire, the yearning he has had for her in the many nights they have spent apart from one another. ]
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Their kiss is almost tentative at first, as though they're both relearning each other after so much time apart, but still seeking; his mouth slants over hers and Rhaenyra breathes a sigh into it, something relieved, as though a part of her had expected to feel him removed even in this, pledging to be her loyal consort in name only. But then it changes, shifts from a moment of restored connection into burgeoning desire, the fire that has always heated their blood beginning to kindle higher and hotter.
He bites her, and her fingers dig a harder clutch into him β proprietary, claiming β where her hands have taken up residence at the top of his shoulder, between the curves of his shoulderblades. Such a pursuit is reckless, especially when anyone could walk the same path she just had and stumble upon them entwined like this, but it's been so long since she's embraced true heedlessness, spontaneity, and as she pulls him against her, asserts herself against him, she feels closer to the girl she once was than the queen she must now be. ]
Right here, husband. [ She barely tears herself away to utter the word, nearer to a plea but also still a demand; her grip tightens on his body as she simultaneously retreats, trying to maneuver them to the closest place where the garden's hedges grow high, where he can press her back into them to fuck her properly. ]
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His place is at her side, and Daemon will not sully himself with betraying what he had seen. They are Targaryens, blood of the dragon and pride of the world, and he will see her conquer.
There is no hesitation when her demand comes; Daemon does not subscribe to the notions of shame or embarrassment, not with fucking, not with his history in whorehouses and his enjoyment of pleasure above almost anything else. Rhaenyra tugs him aside, and he follows, as he always ought to have done, at her mercy as much as she is at his. The love and depth of feeling he has for her has not changed, despite his rage and his anger, the frustration, the hurt. ]
Yes. [ A voice hushed against her mouth, leaning into her, brushing their mouths together again as he lifts her up, to have her legs around his waist, to grind himself closer to the warmth of her body. He longs to have her, to fuck and claim her, and it burns inside of her - the need to remind the two of them of the bliss of being together.
Mouth trailing lower, he nips at her neck, hand moving to push her clothing away, to get between her legs and find her pleasure. ]
cw: loss of infant, gendered language
It is why she lets that careful wall sheβd established between the two of them β the one sheβd built, brick by brick, with every raven sent unanswered, every word exchanged between them as keen and puncturing as a dagger β begin to crumble again, here where no one else can see. The sound against his mouth, the one Daemon elicits from her, becomes somewhere near a moan and a grateful sob as he lifts her up, bearing her weight, her legs instinctively lashing around his waist as much as her dress will permit.
In her wardrobe, at least, there had been options to wear β strange choices, many of them familiar to her in silhouette but a few paired shirts and trousers too, and a part of her had been drawn to the latter before sheβd reached for the dress she wears now. In hindsight, it may have been more cumbersome for him to navigate, and here, he can simply ruck up her skirt, thinner than the heavy gowns she often wears, and find her bare, apart from the stockings she has rolled up to mid-thigh.
Daemonβs mouth descends to her throat; her breathing is harsher now, panting, as her head lolls, as she grants him access to that vulnerability, sensitivity. The ache rises in her anew, only this time it is arousal conjured by his hands, rather than need pulsing in her amid his absence. Rhaenyra slides a hand between them, her wrist clumsily bumping his, for fingers to find the fastenings on his trousers so she can free his cock that much quicker. There will be other opportunities for him to pleasure her, to descend between the vee of her thighs and make her crest on his tongue. In this moment, sheβll act in haste until theyβre joined properly. ]
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It is not worth thinking of.
Having her so close again, his hands stroking down her body and claiming her waist, his mouth hard against her own, it feels like coming home. They may well be in a foreign land, they may well have suffered briefly without one another, but now they found once more. A quiet part of a storm, the oasis in the midst of a desert - the heart that had been torn from him so many years before.
He would sink between her legs and taste her again, to let his hands and tongue give the apologies his words cannot quite fathom, but there is not the time for it. Daemon wants her, yearns for her, and it seems his wife is keen to take as much as he wishes to give. Adjusting her weight against him, using the wall as a counterbalance, he reaches to shove his trousers down even as he tugs up her skirts, deliberately grinding his cock against her, between her legs.
She is perfection, as he had always known her to be, and he groans against her skin. ]
It has been too long.
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Now, carrying another child might be a risk all its own when the threat to her claim endures, but that does not mean she wants it any less. She'd much rather feel Daemon pouring his seed into her, allow the possibility of it taking root to form, and take every precaution she can to ensure another healthy babe. They may be on this strange estate, but they're also far removed from war.
This moment practically calls her back to that night on the beach, when they'd undressed each other under cover of darkness beneath the abandoned hull of that boat, when she'd welcomed him between the cradle of her thighs, into her heat. A wide-eyed innocent no longer, seeking his kiss, professing the desire she'd had for him all these years, and consummating it with hushed whispers and panted breaths beneath waves crashing at the shoreline. ]
Yes. [ She moans it, a single syllable that speaks volumes from her heart, and she knows he'll find her already damp with need, but the grind of his hips readies her further. Even now, she isn't that hasty yet, basking in the sensation of his cock rubbing against her, and when she tips her chin down, it's so she can take his mouth again, pouring more sounds into that intermittent, increasingly sloppy kiss, her tongue stroking, tangling, wresting with his. She could find her release just like this, she thinks, if he persisted enough, pleasure solely for pleasure's sake rather than the priority of making her empty womb quicken. She wonders if he's thinking it too β if this is part of his absolution, worshipping his wife-queen out of personal satisfaction instead of duty. ]
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Hearing her moan, the sound of her as he leans into her, desiring nothing more than to give her pleasure and hear more and more of those wonderful sounds. Rhaenyra is everything that he had always wanted, and being the one to offer her this, to be the one able to worship her body and father her children... That is a dream come to life. It is historic, it is marvellous, and he wants nothing more than to drown in her.
Anything for her. His wife, his other half, his queen.
Leaning into the kiss, no pauses, no hesitation, he deepens it, letting them be messy, letting them fall apart. Rocking against her, letting his hard cock grind into the shape of her body, the movement of her hips against his own. He could spill against her without pushing into her, without letting her feel the solid length of his cock inside of her, if that is what she wanted - desire for her pleasure, before anything else, to bend the knee to her, in all terms. All of them, just for her.
Groaning into her mouth, Daemon hisses out a soft noise before he leans back, kissing her cheekbone, her jaw, resting into her. ]
Beg of me what you wish, Rhaenyra. Where would you have your consort's cock?
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What she had given him much later, after three marriages between them, had been something she had reserved for him alone β a piece of herself she had always held back from the lovers welcomed into her bed. Even Laenor, who had been much more of a companion to her than a husband, had only spent nights with her to perform his duty, or at least attempt to. With Daemon, however, she has embraced marital responsibility and passion alike; conceiving their children has never felt close to an obligation.
A part of her instinctively tenses, when he prompts her to beg β but this is the natural push and pull between them, each of them grappling for control, and so long as he cedes the ultimate authority to her, she'll grant him the privilege of her pleas in bed, twining with him between sheets until they both find that shared pinnacle. His words are fevered with need, over her skin, and she tangles her fingers in his hair, close to the base of his skull, clutching tighter while she shudders in his embrace. ]
Inside. Inside me. [ The answer tumbles past her lips, hurriedly, as he kisses her with tenderness β but she's too desperate for him to favor patience, or delaying any longer, and she knows what her urging will drive him to, especially because he likes it when she's unraveling from sheer need. ] Fuck me, Daemon.
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She preyed on his mind, claimed him, wrapped her arms around him and stole his heart into her own body. Daemon would bend the knee for her time and time again now, would accept that his purpose is to be at her side, that he would be able to support her in her claim, to lay the foundation for a dynasty that would never falter. Daemon loves her, adores her, wants her, and would show her that with word and deed.
He is her sword, her knight, her consort, her right hand, in violence and in peace.
Clutching, pulling at her, making him groan from the pleasure of the pinching pain, he leans into her and lifts her up, aligning her better. It is easy enough to shove his breeches further down, to press her harder against the garden wall, the leaves around them tangling in their clothes and hair, and adjust to shove up and push his cock into her, to take her.
It has been too long, too desperately long, and he groans aloud as he slips in, mouth trailing down and along her jaw, to her neck, where he rests there and just breathes. Carefully, without hesitation, he begins to rock into her, to fuck her properly, giving him all that he has. ]
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They hold, for the span of a few precious moments, before he begins to move against her, in her, eliciting soft gasps from her with nearly every thrust. She can tell how much her body has ached for this, the proof of her need that makes their joining that much slicker as he builds in pace and rhythm. She reaches up, fingers blindly grasping onto the strength of the hedge above them for leverage, as one leg curves around his body, and there she meets him in his thrusts, careful undulations that they perform in unison, as the reassuring memory of all the previous years between them filter through her awareness. Some things are just instinctive, where Daemon is concerned; this is one among them.
It doesnβt occur to her immediately, though, that her lashes are damp with tears, not enough to spill, to stream down her face, but certainly blurring her view; each of his thrusts is a return to her truest strength, her firmest alliance. Through this, they are reaffirming the vows they made to each other before their children as witnesses all those years ago, the ancient words of Old Valyrian custom sworn again through the offering of flesh.
Her other hand finds his jaw, leads him up so that she can see his face, lock her gaze to his so that he may never lose sight of her either. There, she allows him to see what she kept back at Harrenhal, before the others β her dedication to him, still enduring, and the love she holds despite their recent separation. ]
You are mine, [ A fervent whisper in their shared tongue; if she had a blade now, she would use it to draw their blood for an even more definitive sealing. ] And I am yours.
welcome
he stands his ground, but raises both hands. ]
It's alright.
It's called Saltburn, it's owned by a family called the Balfours. They're the ones who've brought us here. I'm not one of them, I was brought here too. I swear.
[ dani's of average height and has a numbered brand on one side of his neck. his clothes are the modern kind found here in the house. they're black and more or less full coverage, sleeves of his shirt rolled uphalfway to his elbows. he has no weapons either, and a very open stance, though that'll change quickly enough if daemon doesn't calm himself down. ]