Cassandra's lips trembled slightly as they made contact with Alaric's flesh. It was warm, surprisingly so, and… undeniably him. Shame warred with a strange, unsettling curiosity within her. She had crossed a line, a line she never imagined she would even approach, let alone brazenly step over.
'Gods, what am I doing?' Cassandra thought, her mind still reeling from the night before, from the impossible proposition he had just laid out. 'Kissing his… thing. My nephew's… thing. For power? Is this really me?'
But even as her mind recoiled, her body… didn't. There was a strange disconnect, a sense of detachment as she performed this act of utter submission. It was as if her body was acting on a different set of instructions than her mind, driven by a primal urge, a desperate hunger for the power Alaric was dangling before her.