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Matter of Principle by structural_sentimental
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
30 Oct 2021
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“What the fuck are you doing?” Mercy hissed, only sheer force of will keeping her from pulling Wake’s intestines out through her mouth and strangling her with them. Even wriggling her way out of Wake’s grasp would be demeaning, so she was stuck here with Wake’s solid, powerful body pressed up against hers. Intolerable! Utterly intolerable!
Wake’s hands had not left Mercy’s shoulders, and now, with a strange and thoroughly unwelcome gentleness, she stroked her thumbs along Mercy’s collarbones. She was too close – Mercy could feel the rush of her blood, the life teeming within her every cell. She could smell her, even – amber and sandalwood and something sharp and vegetal. “I think you know,” Wake told her.
