50 Sentences: Pazzo di Amore ardente
#01 - Motion
Diane had always loved the different, deadly but graceful motion of an Assassin wielding his or her katar.
#02 - Cool
She would rather die than admit to him that she considered him a cool guy - cool in the sense that he was a formidable fighter, both in a mission or guild war.
#03 - Young
Oh, she was young, very young, and youth had its problems, and she was already a troublesome girl to begin with.
#04 - Last
Rishid often wondered how long this would last - this tiny corner of sheltered paradise he had built for her, at the cost of undermining his stability as Cross.
#05 - Wrong
The age gap alone proved that this was very wrong, but he wasn’t human and thus wasn’t bound with human mores and norms - but he could not say the same for her.
#06 - Gentle
For an assassin cross, he could get very gentle; she liked the assuring warmth of his hug at the end of a very bad day, and she snuggled closer to it, feeling that all was right in the world.
#07 - One
That was the one evening that he gave a damn about a Gypsy about to throw a baby into the sea.
#08 - Thousand
The blow struck him, but he knew he would gladly withstand a thousand more blows from the Black Hand if only to keep her safe.
#09 - King
Rishid never wanted to be King; it was why he ran off to Morroc to be a thief - and now a killer.
#10 - Learn
It sometimes disturbed him what things she ran off to learn not only in the Academy but here in Morroc, from other thieves and assassins and possibly stalkers.
#11 - Blur
The hours simply passed in a blur as he lay on his belly listening to her stories about her day at school, and he would smile up at her as she talked and talked.
#12 - Wait
He never could tell her outright about the way he felt for her; there were complications, many of them, and for now the most reasonable thing to do was to wait.
#13 - Change
It was inevitable that she would change as she grew up; she grew more daring and drifted farther away from him, and he hated it.
#14 - Command
Rishid never thought he’d actually have to command her to stop dating random boys; but he doubted she would obey him at all.
#15 - Hold
He wanted to hold her, keep her there, and never let her go ever again - but that was wishful thinking.
#16 - Need
Sometimes his need was so great he had to send himself away - or he might just do bad things to her.
#17 - Vision
Diane was a vision of black, red and a smile of a deadly little girl.
#18 - Attention
She had all of his attention when she sat herself on his lap.
#19 - Soul
Her soul was his, of course, he only needed to say the word.
#20 - Picture
Somehow the damn picture of her in that alley with the sandy-haired swordsman would simply not erase itself from his thoughts.
#21 - Fool
He was a fool - how many times did Razekiel al-Belzebub warn his children to never suffer attachment to a mortal?
#22 - Mad
He was mad with jealousy over a piece of girl’s bathroom chatter - but it was no simple bathroom chatter to him, not when it involve a thousand little giggles about his princess letting the sandy-haired swordsman put his hand between her legs.
#23 - Child
How could an oblivious child notice all the burning passion a six-hundred year old being had for her?
#24 - Now
Now, as in the now, his eyes saw nothing except that little wet spot by her tights - and she was careful to bend down just so he can see it more, every excruciating second of this little game she played.
#25 - Shadow
A shadow in the heart, that was all he would be; she was with someone else.
#26 - Goodbye
He wielded his katars for the last time and whispered a good-bye; he was tired and weakened with poison, but no, he would not die lying down and drowning in regret and jealousy and half-choked tears.
#27 - Hide
There was nowhere to hide in a guild war especially if they were in the middle of a heated encounter; it was get caught or finish the lovely work first.
#28 - Fortune
An old woman told her fortune for her and gave her a red string; she was told that the string would lead her to love, and happiness.
#29 - Safe
She was safe and alive, and he wrapped her with his arms and she could have no idea how enormous the relief he felt, standing there and reveling in the fact that she was alive.
#30 - Ghost
He would be a ghost; the ghost that would hang over her mind and memory wherever she went - possibly her greatest but broken and unknown love.
#31 - Book
For an assassin he was remarkably well-read; he taught her to finish a book a day.
#32 - Eye
She hated it how he could eye all those women and take them home and yet never commit himself to any one of them.
#33 - Never
But Rishid knew in himself that he would never love the same way again; it was Diane or no one at all.
#34 - Sing
He could sing well, and she loved listening to his lullabies; somehow she could picture his distant homeland, that place with the lovely smell of curry and lots of camels.
#35 - Sudden
It was all so sudden - first he suddenly kissed her, now she was busy tearing his clothes off and everything was so urgent and she wanted him inside of her now, quickly, at once.
#36 - Stop
He knew just the right moment to stop and make her whimper, tease her with depth and a nudge and she would want more and beg and say please.
#37 - Time
She would carefully time and plan their little illicit encounters, and it amused him how much detail she put into it - maybe he taught her too much.
#38 - Wash
Diane loved it when he would wash her; he would warm the water with his presence, and make his fingers create hot trails down her pale skin.
#39 - Torn
Torn as he was, he knew he couldn’t deceive himself and make himself try see another woman.
#40 - History
His wasn’t exactly a spotless history, and she often thought about it with a pang of anger and bitterness; she wanted to be his first and his last.
#41 - Power
But she had this power over him and it appalled him that this small, black-haired girl could make him do ridiculous things and yet do it gladly.
#42 - Bother
Diane loved bothering him especially when he was doing paperwork; she would sit on his lap and drape all over him and he would sigh and stop working and kiss her everywhere and she would purr with all the attention.
#43 - God
They didn’t believe in God - they believed in the Balance.
#44 - Wall
She loved it if he carries her up and pins her against the wall; she went nuts with the angle that position provided.
#45 - Naked
She liked him naked; he had the sexiest abs in the world.
#46 - Drive
Truth was, she was the only drive he had in the last hundred years of his life.
#47 - Harm
She knew that he was the last person to ever let anything harm her; that was how much she trusted him.
#48 - Precious
Diane was more than precious - he was her princess and always had been, and always would be.
#49 - Hunger
Sometimes it embarrassed her, this festering hunger she had for him; but she had no way of satisfying it except surrendering to him completely again and again and again.
#50 - Believe
The old woman told her to believe in the red string; but she didn’t mention that the other end of the string had been in front of her the whole time.