He stood in his dark embrace

Feet burning on sun-warmed sands

Pressed against hot, rough cloth

Strength enclosed his arms

He stood powerless in his dark embrace

Breathless he turned his face to one side

The wind played searing fingers on his skin

Hot and intrusive his body rested against another

He stood powerless in his dark enchanted embrace

The threat was unspoken

He could leave him here

The sun and wind to flay his body to bones

He stood powerless in his dark enchanted assassin’s embrace

Fate accepted

Death denied

Life embraced

 

He knelt