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fire_of_the_heart

The dungeon felt a little off, even from the beginning. A little... a little fuzzy around the edges, like the spaces where they weren't looking were rearranging themselves just a bit. It was one of those dungeons that rearranged itself at semi-regular intervals, but it still made sense, physically. All of the pieces were being rearranged, but they were still the same.

Until they weren't.

It was right as they were closing in on the core. Another dungeon had sprung up, and this A-rank dungeon had been predictable enough that they decided to let Yun Minseo depart early to prep for looking at that one. It's not clear if it was feeling threatened by the pair of super powerful combat espers closing in on its core, or if it was waiting for the much less obviously threatening sensor to leave, but, well. That was when it went from 'tricky and annoying but doable' to. Whatever the fuck this is.

Walls of iron turn to sludge around them. The ground shifts from stone to mud to something else, something stickier, at their feet, and then drips down the ceiling to attempt to cover them in some sort of horrible tar as their comms suddenly die. A swarm of something with the wings of birds and the heads of dogs and the claws of some kind of velociraptor comes barreling out of the sludge, a great tidal wave of teeth and claws and malice. The sludge around them writhes and turns to something like snakes, each one's body as sharp as knives, twitching and stretching in unexpected directions.

That is not to say that Tae-gun and Hye-jin take this lying down and go, "Oh well, the dungeon isn't what we expected. Time to give up and go home." Obviously, they're not doing that. Tae-gun can keep them above and protected from whatever fresh new bullshit this fucking - sludge dungeon - throws at them, and whatever the fuck this stuff is made of, Hye-jin can actually just melt it away with a truly astonishing amount of fire. They can still win this, still find and destroy the core.

It just means that - well. Here they are. It's started.

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"I don't have anything planned. I can stay for a while, if you're comfortable with that."

And yeah, she is absolutely working under some backlash. She has been this entire time.

Min Woo-young

there_to_stay

He thought so.

"...do you like K-dramas?"

"... I've never seen any. But they sound fine."

Min Woo-young

there_to_stay

"Then would you like to come watch some with me in a shared guild silo? Your pick of whether we start a new one or keep watching one I'm in the middle of, the latter may get confusing but it won't take forever to get to the actual plot."

"New one, if that wouldn't be too much trouble?" she requests, a little shyly. "And, yes. That sounds good."

Min Woo-young

there_to_stay

Cool then once she says she's fine with it he can teleport both of them to an unoccupied silo room (after marking it occupied in the system so others won't come bother them) and grab some dorama he hasn't watched yet from his to-watch list to put it on.

She turns out to enjoy them, actually. (And they're good practice for her Korean!)

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Woo-young texted me. Says he's spending the evening with Fugimura Hana-shi and will only come over later to sleep with us."

fire_of_the_heart

"Huh! I guess that means it's going well? Possibly?"

Is that a contemplative look on her? Well, maybe, but also it's not her fault Tae-gun apparently likes to prance around his house naked.

neither_rest_nor_peace

"At least not badly," he agrees, waving his commscreen away.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Then he notices her look and tilts his head inquisitively.

fire_of_the_heart

This causes her to stammer. "I-I, well, I mean, if we have the place entirely to ourselves, we can, um...."

neither_rest_nor_peace

...oh.

You know what, she's not wrong.

neither_rest_nor_peace

She's definitely, definitely not wrong.

fire_of_the_heart

Hey look, it's her smug little smile again, coming out to play. Is it a bit weird to go from awkwardly stammering to smirking at him? Maybe, but also she likes eliciting that reaction from him.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Yeah, well.

One of them is wearing clothes. Tae-gun wants to fix that immediately. If Hye-jin has and objections she has approximately 4.37s to voice them.

fire_of_the_heart

No objections to speak of! Actually, she will be happy to experiment in the ways that taking off clothes can be fun.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Here's one.

When he's pulling her top off, he doesn't. Instead, when it's around her wrists above her head, he quickly twists them into a knot so that her hands are tied together and then summons an icicle floating statically in the air to hold the impromptu handcuffs up.

fire_of_the_heart

This elicits a little giggle.

"You know this won't hold me unless I let it, right?" she teases, but yes, she'll play along. This is a fun game. "Even my strength's enough to rip through my own clothes, not even accounting for fire."

(They have of course already tested which of them is stronger. It's him.)

neither_rest_nor_peace

"I do, but if you do that I'll need to get even more creative, won't I?" he says, his lips barely an inch from her ear, close though for his breath to tickle. He then summons an ice thimble onto one of his fingers so he can trail them down the middle of her back while his lips trail down her front.

And if the ice holding her up starts sloooowly sliding further up so that Hye-jin will soon need to be standing on her tiptoes and tensing under his touch, that's just a bonus, really. It's the fun part of not being under strong, acute backlash, that he can plan ahead that far.

fire_of_the_heart

There is an obvious reaction to that, and it is of course: "Hhh-aaaah!"

But she finds her words again soon enough. "Well, n-now I'm tempted to see what happens if I don't cooperate..."

neither_rest_nor_peace

"Try it," he suggests to the crease of her groin as he pulls her pants off one leg at a time. And to serve as an incentive, here's another bit of ice, right behind the crease of her lower back, which she's going to need to be arching her back and hips forward to not touch. It's not melting, either, so it won't even leave cold water on her skin for her to get used to the temperature.

fire_of_the_heart

"But I also want to see what happens if I do!!" she laughs, then decides being a little shit is more central to her nature as a person. She grabs the makeshift handcuffs with her hands to lift herself up irrespective of the cold, then wraps her legs around him and promptly destroys the thing holding her up, dumping all of her weight on him at once. Whee!

"Next time, maybe!" she says, cheerfully.

neither_rest_nor_peace

Nah uh. Now it's not clothes holding her arms up anymore, it's pure ice. The ice doesn't feel cold, though, because he's messing with its specific heat; it's just solid. She could still melt it, of course, but her legs are wrapped around him and if he holds her up with both arms just so he can get his mouth somewhere very distracting. Maybe distracting enough that she won't think of it.

He promised he'd try to be creative, so he's not going to just give up the first time she thwarts his plans. They have the house to themselves, and quite a lot of time, if she wants to draw it out. Game on.

fire_of_the_heart