Melindia by Stella Mira

Nihil

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha. All rights belong to Takahashi Rumiko.

Melindia means ‘sweet like honey’, and it was one of the epithets given to Persephone.

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Epithumia

It begins with innocence, the way all things are born. A petal of laughter, voice of the waking spring…pure want, pure skin, as long as it is untouched. Red the lips that wet the flesh of need, the pulse that beats beneath it. White the calves that twirl, shape of delicate curves; round and round.

Come to me…be mine… Mine.

Over and over; he watches and burns but never touches. Will she remain the same if he strokes the softness, licks the heat? Will he want her the same if death blanches sensation and lust bleeds inside the sinless throat?