<div class="floatleft">(http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae282/caela_ecub/Brunettes/f9fe5328-dfec-48c4-9ebd-efcbba03efc1_zps882dd06b.jpg) (http://s980.photobucket.com/user/caela_ecub/media/Brunettes/f9fe5328-dfec-48c4-9ebd-efcbba03efc1_zps882dd06b.jpg.html)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Athena Stargazer-Smith<br/><strong>Position:</strong>PhD Student/Beginning Divination Professor<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Forest<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Rome<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Athena was thoroughly enjoying herself. Usually she was far more serious, the other archaeology students, and her own classes, demanding it. With Rome however, she felt no need for pretense with him and it was refreshing...and the back and forth of their flirting, was invigorating. He was more than a match for her, and that wicked grin of his, really did draw her in!<br/><br/>Using my gifts isn't cheating...it's just good planning!" she said with a low chuckle in her throat. "Besides, "cheating" implies a competition and I'm not trying to beat you, just enjoy your company," she added, her words trailing off as he shifted and moved so that he was no longer sitting across from her, but was, instead looming over her. The position felt incredibly intimate, even though he wasn't actually touching her, it also made her feel at a slight disadvantage since it limited her ability to change her own position without asking him to move.<br/><br/>She was startled to find that that touch of vulnerability, and the added control of the situation that it gave him, actually made her pulse quicken, her skin warm, and her breath draw in short, though none of those things was enough to make her back down before him and she let him draw in as near as he wanted without moving back in the slightest. With him so close there was nowhere to look but to meet his gaze and she knew there would be no way to miss the darkening of her gaze with something that had nothing to do with anger, "I'd say that the amulet will have had an easier time getting under my shirt than you will, but that you should be more gratified by the results of your endeavor than it was. I won't try to lock<em>you</em>away in a figurine," she teased, a low, throaty laugh parting her lips just before she locked her gaze on his and snapped her teeth at him tauntingly. As close as he was, her teeth just barely missed clicking shut on his lower lip, but her steady made it clear she had missed on purpose.<br/><br/>Despite the teasing, and her apparent attraction to him, she wasn't going to just fall back into the leaves for a tumble. If he wanted more than teasing banter and easy flirtation, she was going to actually make him work for it...she enjoyed the chase as much as anyone else, and had found that delaying her gratification in some matters simply made that gratification, and the anticipation preceding it, all the sweeter.