<br/><div class="floatright"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">nsfw</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v484/FujinAkari/sample_9b041f12e2477289d3601d23d981eaa6_zpsldhgidqo.jpg)</div></div></div><strong>Akari Hifuki (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=274532.msg13505460#msg13505460)</strong><br/>Time:  Y0S3, first month<br/>Location:  River Bandits Castle<br/>Tagged:  Hisayo Yamashita<br/><br/><em>Hifuki gave a Yamashita a somewhat disoriented shove which planted her firmly back in the mattress, though she didn't initially say anything.  She sat, still, looking in the general direction of her captive... though she seemed to be looking somewhere above Yamashita, swaying ever so slightly.</em><br/><br/>"Drinking..."<em>she said, eventually, in a slightly slurred mutter that may or may not be directed to her guest,</em>"Is a bad idea after a battle.  Like... you know you're a warband... you know there will be fighting... you know that you will have to drink to the occasional fallen comrade... the occasional empty chair but..."<br/><br/><em>She shook her head, and the moonlight vanished from her eyes as she snapped her eyelids shut.</em>"Sitting there... in that hall... surrounded by so many empty chairs... that wasn't a celebration, it was a wake... when the dead outnumber the living, what even is the point of it all?"<em>She sighed... and shook her head, the motion becoming more and more pronounced after a few shakes, then she stopped.</em><br/><br/>"And then I come back here... and here you are... the enemy general... the woman who took all those men from me... and I... I..."<em>Abruptly, the Bandit Queen seized a fistful of Yamashita's long hair, yanking her head back and forcing her to look upward, her voice coming in a snarl.</em>"I meant what I said you know!  I don't want you hurt... you are valuable... and those louts would go to far but I... I know ways to cause pain and suffering without leaving marks... I know ways to make you wail and shudder and I..."<br/><br/><em>The woman raises her other hand but, rather than the blow Yamashita may have suspected her hand spasms slightly and Hifuki's breath catches in her throat, a slight hiccup escaping the woman's lips as her hand, delicately moves down the other woman's cheek, feeling the contours of her face in the dark.  "I just... can't find any eagerness or enjoyment in the prospect of vengeance... why?  Did... did those men mean so little to me?  Do you-"<br/><br/><em>She cut herself off, looking away for a moment while wrestling with a thought, then suddenly looking back and tugging Yamashita's head forward with the fist holding her hair, pulling the woman forward and pressing her lips against Yamashita's own, kissing her with drunken bravado...</em></em>