"You would not hurt me," is what he says, careful, caged in. "You could never hurt me."

This, they have argued to a stalemate of irreconcilable disagreement; could so continue to press in unwinnability until the Heavens broke open overhead and the mountains crashed down astride them. But Sui Zhou serves to live as much as a man as he does a blade, and in that he is long intimated with the lay of blame for a tool in the wield of a hand.

Hickey is dying, and Gibson has seen better days.

Bodyswap!

A scene of traditional seamen's handicrafts, for traditionally handsy (and crafty) seamen.

Caleb tries to put himself in a favorable position for the inevitable. It doesn't work out.

“They'll have to make a few surgical incisions, of course.” With a single finger of each hand, Tsurumi traced two lines, one across each side of Ogata's face, from the corner of his warped jaw to the centre of his cheek. “You'll still look fetching as ever, I'm sure.”

Hickey thinks on what is to come for Billy Gibson and for himself.

They were nearly at the end of this bout of fucking, when Sergei gave that damned scarf still looping over his shoulders a playful jerk and whispered in his ear if he would mind if he choked him a little?

An Erebite and a Terror confer over their grievances

Their first time is the last time.