Ride this high

Aliana slept peacefully through the night, partly because she had been forced to by Chimera’s unyielding hold on her body. Unable to move or squirm or slip away, the clouded fae merely relaxed into the dominant brute’s hold, allowing herself to be enveloped by his warm, muscular body. Chimera was still such a conundrum to her. One moment he was biting into her neck like he wanted her dead while screwing the living daylights out of her, the next he was cuddling her and petting her and telling her she was pretty. Life with Chi was an emotional whiplash day after day, and Ali didn’t know how to deal with it—or how long she’d be able to keep her sanity with it.

When morning came, it wasn’t the sunlight that woke her up, it was Chimera jostling her awake. Bleary aquamarine eyes flicked open from behind gray lids as he urged her away and told her to get something for his pain. The expression on his face was different from the one he'd fallen asleep with, a walled off distance in his eye. This was the Chimera she knew; the touchy-feely Chimera had been put back in his cage. Without a word, Aliana slid away from Chimera and dipped her head obediently as she took her leave. She slipped out of the den to grab some food from their stores for his breakfast, then went over to her herb garden, gathering a good amount of meadowsweet she'd been cultivating for Viper, but the woman had staunchly refused. At least now the painkillers would go to good use.

As she was gathering the medicinal plants for her owner, a wicked thought flitted through her mind for a brief moment. Chimera knew nothing about herbs and medicines. He relied entirely on the expertise of Siren and herself. It would be so easy to slip something in with his medicine, another hallucinogenic, or aphrodisiac... or something more sinister. Ali took a stuttering breath, stunned by her own dark thought and quickly smothered it down. No! No, how could she even think of doing something like that? It was so... unethical! Shaking her head, Ali took the plants back into the den and proceeded to fill a bowl with water for Chimera. She brought the medicine, food, and water back into bed for him, setting both down at his paws and stepping back, keeping her head low and ears flat while her silky tail wrapped around her hips and paws. "Was there any other ways I could make you comfortable, Sir?" she asked, waiting to either be given her next directive or be dismissed to go about her daily chores.

"Aliana"