Her skin seemed to tingle as he pulled her into him, as if the electricity beneath his being arced outwards and danced against her flesh.  He kissed her like a starved man, one who had hungered for so long, only to have the thing that would satisfy him right in front of him.  Eira returned the kiss.  She had not lived with the same desire he had for the same amount of time, but whatever had been awakened in her, it wanted more, it wanted to ground herself in this moment and bind herself to him.  So much loss, so much taken from them.  Perhaps they could take some happiness, just a small piece, back in the middle of the torrential storms they faced.<br/><br/>Her legs settled around his waist as he lifted her into his arms. The bed was fairly comfortable, though not often used unless Eira needed a night away from the castle.  Bennington had his issues, but he had been kind to her on that front, giving her the space she needed when she first came to the castle.  She had been so utterly distraught for the first few weeks and now it made all the more sense why.<br/><br/>"Do dragons mate for life?"  The words burst from her lips, before she could realize truly what they meant.  He knew more about their kind than she did, but it seemed they were both rather disconnected from their true nature.  He had been stolen and she had been hidden from it.  Eira lifted a hand and touched his jaw, now that they were on the bed, her legs around him, just breaths away from consummating this strange and sudden relationship.  "I can feel that energy inside me and it wants you, it wants this...but I-I need to know.  I need to know if this carries weight, or if we are just burning off some of that attraction, freeing some of that fire..."