Elemental: As It Was

Another illustration from the fic Elemental. The final frame.

Specs and credits: Hexagon 2.5, Daz Studio 4.6 Pro, 3Delight.

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Excerpt

"I'm not what I was," he grinds out.

"You're everything I want," she hisses, and it's the way she says it that makes him falter. It's a war sound, a call to fight. A demand, not a plea.

More than anything, it's that she doesn't say she wants him still. It's always existed outside time, what they have, out here with the elements where what was and what is are one and the same.

He doesn't kiss her, but he doesn't stop her when she kisses him, and soon, she's scorching him with wind and fire and what they are together all over again. She takes the parts of him that are raw and wretched and burns them all away. He takes her harder than either of them usually likes, driving them both until they shatter, harsh edges breaking apart in the night. The power washes out of them, hard and brittle, and breaks the sky with rain.

Just for a moment, there in the downpour, they are as they always have been.

Everything is in its rightful place again, at last.

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