An Evening of Distractions

Malara sat lounging on one of the couches in her dorm living room. She had been glad to pay extra for a larger dorm all to herself. She had hated the idea of a roommate and half of the living space being not under her control. But as of late, it had been a kind of lonely space. She had been bringing whoever she could home to fill the void, because being alone with her thoughts was not a pleasant experience right then.

She looked across to the other couch at her latest acquirement, a young man named Aedan Drago who she had bumped into at the kegger. He was a nice enough guy, and he had confided in her about the issues he had been going through. Since her revelations with Illiya the other day, she had been contemplating her status as a goddess a lot, and wanted to try being benevolent, as it was called.

She sat back, eating one of the sandwiches they had picked up on their way back to her dorm. She didn't need a kitchen since she couldn't cook even basic stuff. Smiling, she swallowed and spoke up, "Sorry the food isn't homemade. I'm not a very good cook."

"Is there anything else you wanted to talk about, now that we won't be eavesdropped on?"

Malara chewed over the info dump that Aedan had given her, wondering where to start. She slowly worked on her sandwich, thinking of what she wanted to say. Then she felt the apprehension coming off of Aedan.
Did he think she would think badly of him because of the people he killed? As if she wasn't a monster herself, who actually took pleasure from hurting other people.

"Hm... Forty-seven plus six plus one. Fifty-four? And maybe a couple dozen total with the people you killed under their control?"
Malara chuckled dryly and took another bite of her sandwich. "No offense Aedan, but if you're trying to shock or disgust me you'll have to do way better than that. The city of Therum alone had over a million people in it. I cut every one of them down like animals. And that was just one city on one planet."

"You aren't a bad person. You escaped what they were trying to do to you. The moment you had control over your actions, you made the decision to not be what they wanted you to be.
I'm... kind of going through the same thing. My mother messed with my memories, made me think that what I was doing wasn't terrible. But it was."
She finished her sandwich and stretched out on the couch, straightening her arms out above her head and her legs across the cushions and Aedan's lap. Her top rose with the motion, showing off a lot of her stomach.

"I'm not good at pep talks. I had generals for that back when I waged war.
But you know, working yourself to death with six jobs or however many you have isn't going to bring any of them back. And, if you do kill yourself with grief, then that general guy wins."

"Moving on, huh? I know I don't want to be the same old Malara I've always b-" Malara was cut off by Aedan's lips crashing into hers. She grabbed the sides of his head and returned the kiss.

Breaking away momentarily, she grinned and shifted to pull the boy on top of her. "Alright, alright. Talking is good, but I did promise you a distraction~."
Malara wrapped her arms around Aedan's neck and kissed him again, parting her lips slightly.

As she kissed him, Malara slid her hands up the back of his shirt, feeling his back. There was the obvious rough feeling of scar tissue. She traced her fingers across the more prominent ones, thinking about the kinds of fights he had been in to get them.

No more talking. Good. Malara was shit at talking. Physicality, that was what she knew.

Malara moaned into the kiss as she felt his hand slip underneath her shirt. Unlike Aedan, her skin was scar free. She found that lovers tended to prefer their women soft and smooth, so she had always healed her wounds back perfectly.

She ran a hand down his chest, feeling the scars there too before tugging playfully on the waistband of his pants. Pushing him back, Malara followed his lead and stripped off her own shirt, fully exposing the black lace underneath that held her breasts.

"C'mere."

~Fade to Black~