The fairy went utterly still.
Champagne bottles caught her frozen starlight and threw it back in crimson refractions across the mirrored ceiling, turning her into a living prism of shock.
"You knew?"
"Eira Umbraice Voidra." He said the full na without looking at her—voice low, steady, lips barely moving beneath the throb of music.
"I’m not completely clueless. And now I’m sure—the Consort and her master have been watching all along. Thanks to you, I know how to keep my head down. How to move without triggering their attention. That’s worth more than you know."
Eira hovered upright—cross-legged now, floating directly above a bottle of Cristal. Her expression had softened. The spoiled fury, the calculated seduction—both stripped away in an instant, leaving sothing younger underneath.
Sothing almost vulnerable.
She nodded once. Small. Acknowledging.
The vulnerability lasted exactly 1.3 seconds.
Then her lips curled—slow, wicked, delighted.
"How about a kiss on the cheek?" she purred. "As a thank-you gift."
"No."
"Just a little one! Right here!" She turned her face, presenting the smooth void-black crystal of her cheek, tapping it with one tiny finger. Wings fluttered hopefully, scattering black-diamond motes that fizzled into the champagne. "A peck! A graze! The barest contact of your lips to—"
"No. Aren’t you supposed to be a cold Void-Ice fairy?" He swirled his Coke, eyes still on the bubbles, refusing to give her the satisfaction of his gaze. "Why do you act like a lustful succubus instead?"
She huffed—the huff of an ancient creature who found the question equally tireso.
"I’ll have you know I’m a FAIRY, Master. We’re mostly cheerful no matter what elent we wield. It’s in our nature." She held up two tiny fingers like she was presenting a nu. "I can switch, you know—the cheerful and the ice-cold . Two modes. Pick your favourite."
The fingers dropped. Her voice went sly, dripping.
"Also?" She drifted closer, chin resting on the rim of a champagne flute, void-black eyes peering up at him through frozen-starlight lashes. "You should bla yourself. Your sexual abilities are affecting too. Even more than other won. I’m directly connected to you. Your power runs through like—"
"You’re just lustful," Phei said flatly. "What you’re describing would make you immune to my abilities, not more susceptible. That’s how direct connections work. NO?"
She humd—soft, long, the sound of soone caught in a half-truth and deciding whether to double down or retreat with style.
"What does Master know, even..." She drifted lower, chin now resting on the cold rim of his Coke glass, peering up at him with those wicked, glittering eyes. "And who wouldn’t be lustful with the mory and a sight of your naked body and that co—"
"Eira."
"—ck." She finished the word with a defiant little pop of her lips. No sha. Zero. Negative sha. She’d sohow achieved a level of shalessness that violated the laws of thermodynamics. "Anyways. Give my kiss."
"No."
"If you don’t, I won’t help you for three days straight."
Phei finally looked at her.
She looked back.
Wings still. Body still arched in that obscene, deliberate curve—breasts heaving slightly with each breath, veil clinging wetly to every curve and peak.
Her glacial eyes sparkled with dark, gleeful challenge.
Phei swirled his Coke once more.
Took a slow sip.
And said—quiet, calm, utterly deadpan:
"Three days without your whining might be the best vacation I’ve had in years."
Eira’s mouth dropped open.
Then snapped shut.
Then opened again.
The fairy scread—a soundless, furious, delighted shriek that only he could hear—and launched herself at his face in a blur of void-ice wings and outraged starlight.
She didn’t actually make contact.
She never did unless he allowed it.
But she hovered an inch from his nose, tiny fists pounding harmlessly against the air between them, wings buzzing like an angry vibrator on max, scattering black diamonds across his Coke like obscene glitter.
"You—you—insolent—dragon-brat—I will—I swear by the frozen hearts of dead stars I will—"
Phei leaned back slightly.
Took another sip.
Smiled—just the tiniest curl of lips.
Her wings were humming now—low and vibrating disappointnt like a tuning fork struck directly against his cock. Arms crossed tight over her chest—which, given the transparency situation, only served to shove her breasts higher, together, fuller, the veil stretching so thin it was basically body paint to make sure he looked very well at what he was saying no to.
Her tempting nipples stabbed through like dark little accusations, areolae blooming wide and violet-black beneath the frost-gossar, begging to be sucked, bitten, claid.
She knew exactly what she was doing.
He considered it.
Actually, considered it.
Weighed the tactical value of a primordial fairy’s intelligence network—scouting, healing, warnings that had literally kept him breathing—against the social cost of a seventeen-year-old boy sitting in a packed VIP section suddenly pressing his lips to thin air.
He scanned the booth.
Landon was mid-argunt with David about whether the poster dunk or the air walk deserved MVP status ("I’m telling you, the dunk had arc, the air walk was just flexing—").
Brian nursed his drink in comfortable silence, content to let idiots be idiots. The Simps clustered in their own glittering conversations, occasionally shooting him those dreamy, worshipful glances that still made his chest do sothing complicated.
Emily was sowhere in the crowd, managing logistics with the cold efficiency of a field general.
Nobody was watching him directly.
But soone would.
Soone always was.
And the ntal image—the very thought—of Phei, the boy who’d walked on air, the rising dragon of Paradise, leaning forward in a crowded VIP booth and puckering up to nothing—
Lips aid at empty space.
Kissing the void.
David would catch it. Of course, fucking David would catch it. The gossip king would have that clip uploaded before Phei’s mouth even made contact. The boy who walked on air also kisses ghosts. More at eleven. Hashtag cursed. Hashtag haunted dick energy.
A real shiver crawled down his spine. The kind that starts at the base of your skull and doesn’t stop until it’s colonized your balls.
"No."
Eira’s face went through six emotions in two heartbeats—hope, disbelief, outrage, calculation, deeper outrage, and finally a cold, ancient fury that reminded him this cute little thing was older than his entire bloodline and had personally starved suns for breakfast.
"FINE."
The word cracked like black ice under a sledgehamr.
Her wings stopped humming.
Body flickered—translucent glow dimming, glacial light in her veins fading to sullen embers, the lazy starlight refractions winking out across bottles and glasses one by one until the table looked suddenly ordinary, suddenly mortal.
"After today the next three days, Master. THREE. DAYS. No intel. No healing. No frost-knitting your stupid broken bones. No scouting. No warnings. NOTHING."
She rose from the table—veil swirling in agitated eddies, black diamonds scattering in furious bursts—and crossed her arms one final ti. The look she gave him could’ve frozen the champagne solid in its bottles, turned the Cristal into inedible ice sculptures.
"And if you die because I wasn’t there to warn you about sothing? That’s on YOU."
Phei opened his mouth.
She vanished.
One fra: four feet of ancient, gorgeous, furious fairy hovering above a table of thousand-dollar bottles, nipples hard, pussy dripping starlit slick through the veil, eyes blazing with wounded pride.
Next fra: gone.
The temperature around him dropped half a degree—then stabilised. The only physical evidence she’d ever existed at all was the faint shimr of frost left on the rim of his Coke glass, already lting.
He stared at the empty air.
Blinked.
Took a slow sip.
Three days, he thought with a scoff. She’ll be back in three hours. Tops.
Probably.
Maybe.
He wasn’t entirely sure, actually. He’d read enough old stories to know that when an ancient feminine entity said "three days," she might an three days, three hours, three centuries, or three geological epochs depending on how deeply her pride had been wounded.
And Eira’s pride was...
Yeah.
He might be fucked.
Phei leaned back into the leather, let the bass roll through his ribs like a second heartbeat, and decided that was a problem for future Phei.
Present Phei had a celebration to enjoy.
And sowhere out there in the crimson dark of the Crimson Eden Noire, his won were here but not coming to him yet.
He could feel it.
The dragon in his blood always knew when they were close—when the air changed, when the night grew teeth, when the promise of wet heat and soft cries and greedy little cunts waiting to be stretched and filled and ruined rolled toward him like thunder.
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