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Xenk moved along the mountain with the young girl by his side. Her arms were crossed and she was pouting. Xenk was not happy about the current situation either, finding the young girl looking through his things then turning invisible was not how he wanted to start his morning.
So in order to find this girl's parents he was going to go to every house in the village that was closest and ask them to punish her accordingly. The girl turned her head back towards him and glared. “You look like a man I met once, his name was Edgin, he was also about as stubborn as you too.” Xenk observed. “I know that he had a very good heart though”
From above a rock hit his head “Aww you think I have a good heart, thanks” Xenk turned his head to see the aforementioned with a lute in his hands. Hearing rocks shuffle in front of him he turned his head back to the girl, who had vanished again. Cursing, he saw the rocks moving and grabbed the girl's foot again. She reappeared with a frown on her face.
Xenk held her by her shoulders “Do you know who this girl's parents are? I found her looking through my things and I must see that they punish her accordingly”
After that a portal showed up next to him and the barbarian Holga showed up raising up her axe to chop his arms off yelling “NEVER TOUCH MY BUG”. He moved out of the way quickly, letting go of the girl. Holga glared at him and took the girl's hand, moving back through the portal with her. Showing up next to the bard.
Edgin then put his arms around the young girl and pulled her close. “This girl's parents, why you are looking at me, her father.” He paused for a moment. “And Holga’s her motherly figure, at least that's what you said, right Kira?”
The girl, Kira, nodded a proud smile on her face.
Xenk was looking at them, confusion in his eyes. Egdin turned to his daughter, “Now why would you steal from a paladin.”
The girl shrugged her shoulders, “I saw his sword and I wanted it.” Edgin nodded at his daughter, aprovingly. She laughed and pushed him slightly, he feigned hurt. As he tried to walk back to his daughter, he lost his footing and started to fall. Xenk doesn’t know what came over him, maybe the same thing that came over him when the same man was falling into the dragon's mouth, but he went to catch Edgin.
Edgin on the other hand let out a string of “Aw, shit”. Before landing in what seems to be something softer than rocks. Xenk on the other hand had to drop down to one knee to take the force of the man falling into his arms.
Once Edgin unconsciously put his arms around the other man's neck, then he looked into his eyes. Edgin’s eyes grew big before he put on that smirk that Xenk hated so much “Aww my paladin in shining armor.” he said, snuggling up to Xenk’s chest.
Xenk felt a type of fire that made his stomach feel funny and his heart beat faster. The same feeling happened when he shook his hand just not to this level. So Xenk did the only thing that he could think of, he dropped Edgin. Sadly for him though, Edgin arms were still around his neck so when he dropped said man his neck got pulled down. Now they’re faces were very close. Xenk took one of his arms and gently pushed the other man's arms off of him.
“Eww can you two almost make out somewhere else.” The red-haired tiefling said, making gagging noises.
“Yeah dad, it’s kinda gross,” Kira agreed. Xenk got up and brushed the dust off him, offering his hand to the other man, despite the rather compromising position they were both in a second ago he still wanted to help the other man. Edgin looked back up at it and took it, again the fiery feeling shot through his body.
“Sorry kid, it just happened.” Edgin said, shrugging his shoulders. “Hey man, I know my dear daughter stole from you, let us make it up by making you dinner. We have some fine drinks that Miss Doric knows how to make.” he said. Putting his hand on the other man's shoulder and leading him the way towards his house.
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Xenk walked into the man's house, it was obvious that more people were living here than should. Hammocks were hanging from the ceiling and there was a loft that was fit for two people to sleep in.
“Oh this place is a mess, Simon clean this up.” Edgin said, the boy gave him a glare “Please” the man added on. Simon rolled his eyes and said a spell that helped him clean up in about 30 seconds.
Xenk had to be honest it was amazingly clean for five people to be living there.
“Great, now I’ll go get us a drink and Doric and Simon, can you guys cook us some dinner/” Edgin said heading out the door.
Both of them rolled their eyes, but went and did it anyway. Once Edgin came back in, he came close to Xenk’s ear. “Those two are so close to kissing, I just need them too, which will save me a lot of stress.”
The mention of kissing and the fact that Edgin was so close to her ear made his stomach feel weird in the same way that it did when the two were so close and when Xenk was holding the other man. Xenk just nodded to that, not feeling like he could talk.
“He looks uncomfortable, are you okay?” Kira spoke up “Also sorry that I almost stole from you.”
“Are you uncomfortable then let's get you sat down.” Edgin said leading him to a chair with his arm on Xenk’s back, that fact he was hyper aware of – probably because of that kind of nice fiery feeling tha Xenk gets whenever the other man touches him.
After Xenk sat down and got his drink the bard talked his ear off. Xenk not able to get a word in. The man talked about all the things he did after they met, getting his daughter back, getting into the games, and taking down the wtich lady.
To Xenks surprise he does not find the incessant talking annoying he is rather enamored by it. Listening to every word the man says, and hanging onto them with every detail that he puts in.
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After a while Xenk finds that it is dark and he should probably get moving. So he finds himself stumbling towards the door, he now regrets drinking so much of that drink, then he felt a hand on his arm. “Man you can’t go anywhere in tha state stay here for the night, we don’t have an extra bed but mine bed is pretty big we can fit on it both.” Xenk lazily agrees he really doesn’t want to do anything else tonight so he very carefully takes off his armor and slips into bed with the other man. All the rest of the residents of the house are already asleep or in bed.
Once Xenk lays down he feels that funny weird feeling in his stomach again. He stares up at the wall and wonders why he is feeling the way he is, when he feels the bed shift next to him. Then he heard a soft “Sorry Xenk” before he could open his mouth to ask what Edgin was sorry for when he felt the other man's lips on his. The fiery feeling lit up all over his body and something felt like it shifted into place. Like everything was right in the world and then Edgin pulled back.
Everything went crashing down so Xenk leant over to Edgin's side of the bed and said “Don’t be sorry” as he put his hands on the other man's cheeks and pressed their lips together again. HE felt the surprise within Edgin then felt him lean into the kiss. Xenk got to his knees and started to straddle him. Edgins hands were in his hair.
The feeling of bliss was getting almost too much to handle until they both heard a voice yell “Stop making out, we want to sleep.”
Xenk pulled away from Edgin and got off of him, saddened. Through the faint light of the moon he could Edgin smirk and pull Xenk closer to him to fall asleep in each other's embrace.