“Do so, brave Captain Victus, do so. I declare the sun is on its way back down and it is past time the men were on the move. I would be ashamed if, in after times, the poets said the Thousand Swords were at the Battle of Ospria… and did nothing.” Cosca smiled wide, and this time with feeling. “Lunch, perhaps?”

To the Victors…

Black Dow used to say the only thing better’n a battle was a battle then a fuck, and Shivers couldn’t say he disagreed. Seemed she didn’t either. She was waiting there for him, after all, when he stalked into the darkened room, bare as a baby, stretched out on the bed, her hands behind her head and one long, smooth leg pointing out towards him.

“What kept you?” she asked, rocking her hips from one side to the other.

Time was he’d reckoned himself a quick thinker but the only thing moving fast right then was his cock. “I was…” He was having trouble thinking much beyond the patch of dark hair between her legs, his anger all leaked away like beer from a broken jar. “I was… well…” He kicked the door shut and walked slowly to her. “Don’t matter much, does it?”

“Not much.” She slipped off the bed, started undoing his borrowed shirt, going about it as if it was something they’d arranged.

“Can’t say I was expecting… this.” He reached out, almost scared to touch her in case he found he was dreaming it. Ran his fingertips down her bare arms, skin rough with gooseflesh. “Not after last time we spoke.”

She pushed her fingers into his hair and pulled his head down towards her, breath on his face. She kissed his neck, then his chin, then his mouth. “Shall I go?” She sucked gently at his lips again.

“Fuck, no,” his voice hardly more’n a croak.

She had his belt open now, dug inside and pulled his cock free, started working at it with one hand while his trousers sagged slowly down, catching on his knees, belt buckle scraping on the floor.

Her lips were cool on his chest, on his stomach, her tongue tickled his belly. Her hand slid under his fruits, cold and ticklish, and he squirmed, gave a womanly kind of a squeak. He heard a quiet slurp as she wrapped her lips around him and he stood there, bent over some, knees weak and trembling and his mouth hanging open. Her head started bobbing slowly in and out, and he moved his hips in time without thinking, grunting to himself like a pig got the swill.

Monza wiped her mouth on the back of her arm, squirmed her way onto the bed, pulling him after, kissing at her neck, at her breastbone, nipping at her chest, growling to himself like a dog got the bone.

She brought her knee up and flipped him over onto his back. He frowned, left side of his face all in darkness, right side full of shadows from the shifting lamplight, running his fingertips gently along the scars on her ribs. She slapped his hand away. “Told you. I fell down a mountain. Get your trousers off.”