บท 490: Our Moment, Part 1 (R-18)

I needed to take a moment away from the moment. I didn't move, I didn't say a word, and neither did Ash, a silence where only our heavy breaths spoke. 

The stare of her eyes was a meek one, hypnotic to the point of mesmerizing. Something about it, something about her… I… I don't know… there was something, I just felt something.

"Is there… is there something amiss, Master?" Ash quietly asked, a trace of uncertainty and unease leaving with her words. "Do I…? Um, is something not to your liking, perchance?"

Was it her demeanor, maybe? Or her pointed ears, squirming, burning red all this while? Perhaps it was just the way she just felt so vulnerable now - her body trembling lighty with trepidation, the look on her face, a soft submissive surrender reflecting back in the shimmer of her eyes - the always vigilant, always graceful Knight she was no longer.