A chat with an angel

Sly settled himself and his charges in the center of the glade. His wolves scattered to do as wolves do. He could feel the life of the three newcomers to his realm in a cottage just to the side of the longhouse along with Ariel. Sarah he wouldn't need to look for as she approached from her smithy to greet her father and his guests. He could tell she put her face on when seeing him bloodied and she could tell how exhausted he was. Their nod of recognition when she joined them carried layers of context he was certain mortals couldn't replicate. It hadn't been that long but it was good to see his daughter after that shit-storm.

Sly diplomatically handed off the guests to his daughter as he headed over to see Ariel with the former bandits in tow. Outside the cottage he stopped the two women and headed in alone. Ariel had the three laid out on cots and apparently sleeping. As Sly closed the door behind himself Ariel quietly rose from his patients.

"I got to the two young ones as their souls were near to moving on." He whispered gesturing at the teenage humans. "They will be weak for a while but should make a full recovery with food and rest." He moved to the woman sly knew to be Alycint by process of elimination. "She was not so near true **** but her mind will take some time to recover. I've put her into a dreamless sleep for now so the nightmares won't impede her rest further."

"Thank you Ari, again." He said to pretty angel. "Can we go home and talk for a bit or do they need you still?" Sly said with some trepidation.

"Uhhm. Yeah, we have until morning I should say."

"Ah, Good, good." Sly opened the cottage door to speak to the girls outside. "Lara, please put on a large pot of stew. We will be needing it, Sarah can show you around. Nyali let the Garth and... The brown haired kid... know that their loved one are sleeping and where they are. Then find yourselves a place to sleep that isn't occupied. That will be yours."

Sly didn't wait to see if any of that had gotten done. He offloaded every responsibility he could for the time being and dragged his lover by the hand into his/their home. The exertion sent agony ripping through his arm but he kept it under wraps. Or at leas he thought he did.

Once they were alone Ariel pulled away stopping Sly in his tracks. "I know what you are doing Simon." The petite man said flatly.

"What am I doing Ari?" Sly said trying to keep himself neutral. He was terrified that he'd fuck this up.

"The 'fae-lord wizard badass' thing you do. I know you. I met the non-faerie you. The act is useful of course. Reputation is golden but... you don't have to do that with me."

Well shit. That was not what he expected. Sly felt worse.

"Oh, and your healing skills are atrocious! What did you do, just shove a bunch of life magic into the wound?" The angel said as he examined the wound Simon hadn't let him treat. "That is not how this is supposed to work, if you could get sick you would have killed yourself..."

The criticism kept flowing as Ariel purified the wound and healed it properly. Sly marveled at Ariel in his element, full of confidence while he was out of his depth. Once he had been healed enough to move without pain Sly pulled Ariel onto a kiss.

"And stay away from crude iron, it's bad for you!" Ariel said as he pulled back to catch his breath slapping Sly's chest before diving back in.

After a few minutes passed like that they separated. Sly, growing serious and unsure, asked Ariel the question that had been bothering him for a bit. "Ari, are we a thing?"

"What?"

"I mean, fuck, I care about you and I'm kinda a horny dipshit sometimes... So, umm. How do you feel about polyamory?" Simon sputtered.

"What!?" Ariel shouted.

"Well, I mean I think I might love you but there's stuff I wanna do that... And there's stuff you would probably like that I don't and you're still new to all this stuff. I feel like I fucked up Ari. I should have talked to you before I..." Sly was just rambling by that point.

"Before you what, Simon?"

"Before I fooled around with the bandits."

"Oh, but you... love me and are concerned for my feelings." Ariel said, still processing. "This kind of thing was part of the plan before you met me wasn't it?"

"There is a reason the demon sisters chose me. I'm have my weaknesess. I really do have a few kinks. Being able to breed an army fast wasn't something I was gonna turn down. Now that I'm here I set myself up to be fucking tempted all the time. Damn, I want to be able to enjoy my life. It's gonna be either really long or really short. Either way I want to make the most of it. And yes I want you with me but if that's not what you want..." Sly held out Ariel's Alma. "I got you out of the closet, at least to yourself. That's why I took this."

Ariel almost took the shining gem. "We can be together, but I can have sex with other people? And you can too?"

"That's the idea. We might share with other people at the same time. I might come to care for other people too. I can see that with the bandit girls. I think you'll like Lara. So long as everyone knows what the're getting into and wants it."

"So, what would that make me?" Arel asked.

"My boyfried Ari, and my First Consort if you'd be willing." Sly said regaing some hope.

"Yes to the former. For now. I love you Sly." Ariel said pushing his Alma back into Sly's hand and closing his fingers around it. "You said you'd keep me."