<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fd/Valdar.jpg)</div><strong>Character name:</strong>Galvren Valynar (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=234819.msg11585469#msg11585469)<br/><strong>Position:</strong>Valdar (Newly Risen to Gaidin)<br/><strong>Bondmate:</strong>Open<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Suana Bemesta.<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Evening, Saven 7th, 990NE.<br/><strong>Place:</strong>The Grounds, Secluded Corner Of The Garden.<br/><strong>Warning:</strong>N/A<br/><hr/><br/>Well at the very least, Suana Sedai seemed pleased that he had agreed to Bond right there and then; he watched as her playfully coy smile transformed into a broad grin, and he found his own face shifting into a smile of his own (albeit a little less wide); Suana Sedai may not have grinned in public very often - from what he could see, anyway; granted, his public experience with her was limited to the training field where concentration and determination were the more common expressions over happiness and humour - but he maintained (privately, for the moment) that that was a damn shame since it was so infectious when it did appear. It was always a genuine, happy smile that split her face in half and lit her eyes with such mirth that you would have to be made of stone not to at least<em>feel</em>like smiling back. She was so...so happy that he almost forgot for the moment that she was an Aes Sedai and simply saw the face of a nervous woman who had just realised that her nerves were unfounded and that there was nothing to be worried about. But that Aes Sedai status returned quickly as she shifted a little closer and reached for him, and he reflexively braced for the Bond; he had been told that it was a rather surreal experience, and that it took a fair amount of bracing to truly prepare for it by the older Warders. Whether they had been messing with him, or whether it was a different experience for different people, or whether he had just simply misunderstood what they meant - since they were a little cagey on the details, perhaps understandably so - he still got the impression that you shouldn't just jump straight into it. Having another person in your head was<em>bound</em>to be a bit of a jarring change the first time it happened, after all, so perhaps some pacing was required.<br/><br/>Thankfully, however, it appeared that he hadn't needed to brace himself; the hand on his cheek didn't send any noticeable washes of Power through him, and he didn't feel her appear in his head in any way, shape or form...the most he felt was the soft, warm touch of Suana Sedai's hand on his cheek. He opened his eyes - when had he closed them? Apparently bracing himself also meant closing his eyes in preparation, for some reason - and looked up into her face, meeting her gaze evenly even as she blushed a little. When he registered her words, he couldn't help himself; he flushed just a little as well, though it was more from the sudden realisation of why she had touched his cheek more than any kind of embarrassment. Of course...she wanted to kiss him without getting any possible feedback from the Warder Bond, just in case things didn't "click." Or maybe she just wanted a point of reference to compare how the kisses felt before and after the bond? Or maybe she just wanted a first kiss absent any kind of obligation or compulsion? He had no idea which one - if any of them - was true in her case, but he found that he had the same desire. Just one kiss, outside the bond, just to see what it was like. Probably a good idea...and definitely an alluring one. He felt his heartrate increase a little at the thought of locking lips with Suana Sedai - the agelessly beautiful woman and legend who had just confessed to "desiring" him; how could he not become anxious and excited? - and that reaction only intensified as she shifted - giving him a brief glance of her long, subtly muscular, rather fantastic legs - and slid herself onto his lap, his legs now bearing her weight as she lopoed her arms around his neck slowly, bringing them closer together than they had perhaps ever been before.<br/><br/>He sucked in a small, steadying breath as he attempted to get his newly rapid heartrate under control. This was a woman who wanted to Bond him and, more jarringly, wanted him<em>exclusively.</em>It would be a change, not being able to be "intimate" with Theraeve Sedai or his other female friends, but...well, as he had noted earlier, he hadn't really seen them in a long time and Theraeve Sedai was drifting away from him more and more as of late...and he and Suana Sedai got along really, really well, better than he had any right to expect at the beginning of this. He found that his hands had drifted upwards to rest lightly on Suana Sedai's waist, idling there as he looked across the short distance into her eyes, her gaze apparently searching his for something. His heartrate spiked a little, and he felt a fresh bundle of anxiety ball up in his stomach...but why? She had outright said that she wanted him and that she wanted to kiss him...and then she had<em>sat in his lap.</em>These weren't "signals," these were outright declarations of what her intentions were. So then...why wasn't she leaning in, or making any more moves? Did she...want<em>him</em>to engage the activity? He felt suddenly a little nervous over that, but quickly swallowed it. He was a<em>Gaidin,</em>for Lights Sake, and he couldn't get the courage up to make the first move on a woman who had outright told him she wanted him to kiss her? Grow the hell up, man!<br/>He licked at his lips a little. No more delaying. She wanted a kiss...well, if he was to be her Warder, he would have to get used to fulfilling her desires. "I...hope you don't take offence to this, Suana Sedai," he said softly...before he leaned in towards her, eyes slipping closed as he pressed his lips against her slowly and gently. He just hoped he didn't find himself suspended in the air upside down for this. That would be awkward, to say the least.