i'll leave you the stars from the sky
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He’d asked Evandrin what it was like to fly, to soar through the sky. To wake up each day, look from your window and see clouds melting and billowing around your home.
Evandrin’s answer was to summon his wonderful griffon Caelus, made of space and stars and darkness, to climb onto his back with an easy, practiced motion, and reach out his hand to Zerxus to help him up as well.
And up, and up, and up, until the spire of the city lay below them no bigger than a bottle and they crested the clouds, until they were higher than the birds chirring in their flocks towards the horizon and there was nothing at all between them and the sun, where Caelus stretched out his wings and coasted on the thermals as serenely as Avalir travelled suspended on the energy of the ley lines of Exandria, and it was quiet, so quiet, no sound but for the wind whistling through Evandrin’s hair and the beat of Zerxus’ own heart in his chest where it was pressed tight to Evandrin’s back. To sit in the sphere of the firmament was everything Zerxus had ever imagined – except that his mind could not have conjured a man so wonderful as the one who had brought him there.
(Or, how exactly Zerxus met Evandrin.)
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- Part 1 of i'll leave you the stars from the sky
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Evandrin, the most magnificent man in the world, is looking at him like he’s a wonder greater than every last thing in the city he protects. A long second passes with Zerxus kneeling before him, hands resting on his legs, while they stare into each other’s eyes, both burning with desire and admiration.
But Zerxus isn’t done yet. From a dresser he brings a comb and some oil and settles himself behind Evandrin on the bed. Now that they’re warmed up, he can feel the heat radiating from Evandrin’s skin, but they’re not touching, as much as Zerxus wants them to be. First, he’s going to revel in being the one to serve the man who serves everyone else.
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- Part 2 of i'll leave you the stars from the sky