Love you to the moon and back, honey

As soon as he'd settled into the cool water of the lagoon, Artorias felt Briar shift so her body was leaning into his, cuddling beneath the shallow water together and looking at each other with the most infatuated lovey-dovey eyes of a newly married couple. Being out here, alone together and amongst the beautiful idyllic Austral coast with the most beautiful wolf in the world whom he loved more than life itself, he wondered how he'd ever gotten so lucky to end up with a life like this. It almost made him laugh to think about how he and Briar had briefly considered just honeymooning adjacent to the Hallows in case they were needed when there were still hundreds of thousands of incredible sights like this to be seen and moments to be shared beyond their doorstep! His duties had chained him to his pack—but maybe this was a sign that they didn't need to. He and Briar could take personal vacations from time to time, go wherever their hearts desired, and trust that the Hallows wouldn't burn to the ground while under the care of their friends and family. Already their honeymoon was shaping up to be an incredible experience, and Art wanted to stay out here as long as they possibly could, just enjoying being alive with one another.

Briar's gentle squeeze to his paw made him murr with happy love, continuing to cover her face and head in tender little affections. He didn't miss the way they made her pretty eyes flutter, or the way her smile shifted into a more sultry grin, knowing exactly where her mind was turning to. He smirked back at her, a knowing expression on his visage, fire opal eyes gleaming with mischievous mirth when she purred back how she thought the lagoon would suit all their needs. Artorias wasn't given a chance to respond though, as he felt his wife's flowing tail brush up along his hip and thigh beneath the shallow water, forcing the brute to suck in a sharp breath from the teasing tickling she left in her wake. Artorias and Briar both shared a high libido and maintained a highly active sex life in their everyday lives, but with the romance of their wedding still hanging in the air around them, they had both become insatiable, all over each other at any opportunity they had to savor, enjoy, and claim their new spouse. Artorias was quite liking this ravenous side of Briar, seemingly brought out by their shared experience with the Mendaciums and with the mood of their marriage still fresh and going strong. Already he was wondering how many days and nights he'd be able to convince his queen to spend tangled up with him in the sands and shoals out here before they'd be forced to go back.

As they lay there with the Aegis musing over these wanton thoughts, he felt Briar's paw leave his to begin trailing ever so slowly up and down his foreleg, bringing those tickling tingles back over his skin wherever she touched him. He murred under his breath, the sound of delight rumbling deep in his chest. That felt so nice and was also beginning to turn him on, the heat gradually smoldering in his core competing against the cool water surrounding him. Briar spoke to him again with that sultry purr in her voice, her words suggestive and lewd and everything Artorias loved to hear from his queen. Gods, she was so perfect...! A sly grin crept across his lips, the dire brute chuckling low in his throat as he shifted to press his body a bit more snugly against hers, fitting her form perfectly into his side. "Hmm, you know, I bet you're right... but there's only one way to find out," he replied in lustful, husky tones, his eyes burning with that same lecherous fire that hers had.

While she continued to stroke over his foreleg in an almost hypnotic way, Artorias craned his head down to continue to trail a path of kisses across Briar's forehead, around the base of her antlers, slowly making his way to her closest ear and catching it gently between his teeth. He gingerly rolled the delicate flesh between his teeth, releasing it only long enough to run his tongue along the edge to tease her some more before moving down to trail kisses along the side of Briar's cheek and then down the side of her neck, breathing in deep her scent, her natural perfume intoxicating him and giving him a lustful high like nothing else could. He withdrew his leg from her grasp then, rising so he could stand above his wife lying prone in the shallow water. The cool water sluiced from his fur, dripping from soaking fur that clung to his muscles like a wet shirt while he stood over Briar, lowering himself just enough so that he could continue to run those kisses, nibbles, and love bites down the back and side of her neck, teasing her endlessly while the brute's forelegs wrapped around his fae's hips. Artorias carefully laid his body down across Briar's in the water, shifting his hips into position to align their bodies, his head resting beside hers and paws hooking around her shapely hips with a strong, secure hold. "I love you," whispered the Aegis to his Queen. Then Artorias pushed his hips forward and slid himself into Briar with a deep groan, making their bodies one as he poured forth all of his love and lust for his perfect bride into their passionate lovemaking.

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"Artorias Carpathius" | "Carpathian"