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[tricktofalling]

Fall comes in with a suddenness that thrills Inej. She throws open the windows in their apartment and busies herself in the kind of deep cleaning she won’t do again until Spring. There’s something good about doing it, something peaceful. If she must be stuck in a birdcage, she is at least stuck in a very good one, and she can at least make the soaces she occupies her own.

When she gets to the bedroom, she clears out their closest, dumping everything on the bed so she can start sorting out her summer thibgs and give Kaz’s clothes a good airing as well. He’s been here for years now. That never really strikes her until she sees the things they’ve amassed.

Once Kaz’s suits are done, she sits surrounded by her array of clothing, sorting diligently from the middle of the bed.

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[everymonstrousthing]

Kaz never visited the girls, not at the Menagerie, not at The White Rose, but he saw those boys, when he went there on business. He can imagine what he looks like, with the skirt tangled up around his waist, makeup smeared across his face. She thrusts into him harder, and he groans softly.

"Like that," he mumbles.

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[tricktofalling]

"Like that," she agrees, giving him what he wants, something rough and hard but still slow for now. It's about the force of it, the control, him handing it over and her taking it from him.

She thinks, however briefly, of her arrival in Ketterdam, of the rumple of Kaz and Jesper emerging from this room to find her, their wariness in telling her a thing, as if she might find fault in it. Now, she rather relishes that Jesper was here, between her then and her now, to help Kaz unwind some of his tighter bounds.

She leans down and kisses at his neck, his jaw, scraping her teeth on his skin.

[everymonstrousthing]

He keeps his arms up over his head, though he leaves enough room for her to kiss his neck, loving the brush of her lips, the scrape of her teeth. He squirm his hips, trying to get more of the toy faster, trying to feel more thoroughly fucked.

[tricktofalling]

He squirms and moves, going for it with a meager desperation that Inej absolutely adores. She scrapes her teeth a little harder, working her hips a bit more insistently.

"That's it," she sighs. "Oh, you're lovely."