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into-the-arms-of-fate

Valentin Saint-Martin (Tintin to his friends) is, without exaggeration or boast, one of the best journalists in Citadel space.

He's good at a lot of other things: tech, biotics, doubles skyball. He still wears the N7 jacket from his ill-fated stint in the Alliance military, sometimes. But he wasn't made for the chain of command, or for gunning down batarians too unlucky to be born into a society that isn't a heaping trash fire. So now he's an investigative journalist - the only one who could survive the stories he takes on.

But being a journalist is more of a calling than a day job. (He's a freelancer, he can't abide sitting in an office.) The rest of the time, he does odd jobs. More often than he'd like to admit, he's a relic hunter.

Currently he's tracking down a prothean orb stolen from the Illium Museum of Antiquarian Arts and Technologies. The culprit was a salarian who thought he was much more clever than he actually was, which is not uncommon for salarians. Tintin beat seven kinds of Hell out of him and found the artifact "hidden" in a fishtank in his apartment. Sighing, he reaches in and grabs it -

- and suddenly he's somewhere else. A desert. It's dark, even with a bright moon overhead, and his eyes adjust after a few seconds of near-total blindness.

"Milou, where in the blazes am I?" he asks his omni-tool, looking around wildly. One moderately sized white moon, habitable without a suit... but it can't be.

"Downloaded star charts indicate North Africa, Earth, Sol system, Local Cluster," says his VI.

"How did I get to Earth from Omega?" he asks rhetorically. "-is there even anywhere on Earth with this little light pollution? Send a message to Haddock asking him to pick me up."

Milou hums, then stops short. "Extranet access unavailable," it says sadly.

"-on Earth?"

"Extranet access unavailable," it repeats.

He sighs, and checks himself over. He's got his backpack, which mostly just contains snacks and extra canisters of medi-gel and omni-gel. He's got his heavy pistol. He's got his omni-tool. Which is all he should really need.

He sighs, and starts walking in a randomly chosen direction.

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untamed_savage

And after that, all is quiet.

Taharqi isn't looking at the dead boars, though.

into-the-arms-of-fate

"-probably should've warned you about how loud guns are. You alright?"

untamed_savage

Huh? Oh yes he's alright sorry give him a moment while he wraps his arms around Tintin to kiss him.

into-the-arms-of-fate

Squeak!

untamed_savage

He holds the kiss for a few seconds before pulling back away, laughing. "Sorry, I don't know why, I—" But he's looking Tintin up and down like a very delectable meal.

into-the-arms-of-fate

"Was that really so attractive?"

Tintin kisses him again, though.

untamed_savage

He will grab Tintin's ass and press their naked bodies together in lieu of answering with words.

into-the-arms-of-fate

Well, Tintin is experiencing a bit of an adrenaline high, and he feels like grabbing Taharqi's ass and grinding forcefully against him. How about that.

untamed_savage

Taharqi responds very positively to this! Mostly by squeezing Tintin's body even harder against his and rubbing himself on him somewhat. Maybe some lip biting will be involved also.

into-the-arms-of-fate

Tintin appreciates being bitten pretty much anywhere Taharqi chooses. He ends up mostly grinding his pussy against Taharqi's thigh and making breathy little noises.

untamed_savage

—okay wait he pulls away and bites his lower lip. "Boars," Taharqi says, his voice a bit raspy. He clears his throat and adds, "You are very hot but we should take those boars back to camp before it gets too much darker."

into-the-arms-of-fate

"Boars. Yes."

Tintin disentangles himself reluctantly, and gestures at the corpses; they glow blue, and he starts dragging the big one effortlessly along the ground. "Can you get the other two? I'd like a hand free in case I need the gun."

untamed_savage

"...sure." He can grab both extra boars. "And you are going to tell me that is not magic, either."

into-the-arms-of-fate

"Just biotics! I know I explained biotics - manipulating Mass Effect fields using the Element Zero nodes distributed through my body?"

untamed_savage

"You did say those words! What is Element Zero, exactly?"

into-the-arms-of-fate

"A crystalline form of something called dark matter, which can locally alter how the world works in respects like gravity."

untamed_savage

"Gravity... which is a word for the way things fall down," he says, slowly.

into-the-arms-of-fate

"Indeed! Well, it's - more complicated than that when you get into it, but isn't everything. So with a properly calibrated Mass Effect field, I can make things fall up, or simply float in the air like it's water. In this case I made the boars weigh almost nothing."

untamed_savage

"Very handy." He looks at the bigger boar wistfully. "It's a shame its head got that hole. That would make for a great trophy. —for you, not for me, of course."

into-the-arms-of-fate

"...I'm not sure I understand the appeal, to be honest. I killed it for food, not for - clout."

untamed_savage

"I suppose it doesn't work as well when you can kill something that big with one shot," he admits.

into-the-arms-of-fate

"Yes - perhaps if I had to kill it with nothing but a spear and my physical prowess, I would feel differently. And it's not as if your own trophies mean less for my being here, since you did take them down with your physical prowess."

untamed_savage

"I favour the bow and the axe," he says, gesturing at the weapons Tintin made him. "But yeah, I think that is more or less it. More hunting trophies mean you are a better hunter. ...at least if they aren't just ten score shaleback heads, anyway."

into-the-arms-of-fate

"Yes, that does sound a bit monomaniacal. And with my technological advantage, any hunting trophies at all would seem... gauche. You wouldn't take a trophy from a rabbit hunt."

untamed_savage