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Beauty-Beast 4

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There was a moment where Ctirad thought that heā€™d given the wrong answer, that Sir was going to be irritated with him or, worse, dismissive. Then the arms around him shifted until a hand was patting his shoulder. ā€œYou know, Ermenrich sold you far too cheaply. Youā€™re a treasure.ā€

The praise filled him with warmth, the way it always did. Ctirad let himself stay as he was, leaned against Sirā€™s chest. It was nice, while it lasted. And it was a drug, but it wasnā€™t a drug he had any control over, so there was no point in worrying about it. ā€œIā€™m glad you approve, sir.ā€

ā€œAll right. Keep your eyes closed, and Iā€™m going to lead you out to my car. Itā€™s not that far from here. Tell – no. Can you tell me something about yourself, while we walk?ā€

Sir moved until his arm was around Ctiradā€™s waist, and, feeling daring, Ctirad moved his own arm lightly around Sirā€™s waist. ā€œWell.ā€ He coughed, a little amused despite the situation. ā€œIā€™m not straight. And I knew that before I got collared. But thereā€™s uh. Something different about it when youā€™re not pretending for anyone but your Owner, you know?ā€

ā€œI have some idea. All right, itā€™s level for a bit here, so weā€™re just walking forward. Easy, there you go.ā€

Ctiradā€™s legs had woken up, but he let himself lean on Sir anyway. It felt warm and easy, and he was going to take it while it lasted.

ā€œSo, pretending for your Owner?ā€ Sirā€™s voice was quiet, kinda thoughtful. ā€œYou do a lot of that?ā€

ā€œā€¦Fuck, donā€™t order me not to. Please. Sir.ā€ He knew he didnā€™t sound submissive. He couldnā€™t make himself sound submissive about that. He cleared his throat and tried for explanation instead. ā€œOrders like that, they fuck with your head.ā€

Sirā€™s chuckle was low and warm. ā€œI wonā€™t. But I might ask you, a few times over the first months, if youā€™re pretending.ā€

ā€œā€¦In private? Sir.ā€ Ctirad swallowed. The public humiliations had been the worst. The part where he knew he couldnā€™t go back to being who he was, that was a ship long sailed. But the part where he had to work with those people and he was made to grovelā€¦

ā€œIn private.ā€ Sir squeezed Ctiradā€™s hip lightly. ā€œIn public, Iā€™m not going to give you orders. Iā€™m going to treat you as something between a bodyguard, an assistant, and a boyfriend. Weā€™ll worry about the orders for that later. In private – well, in private, youā€™re mine.ā€

His voice was warm and throaty. Ctirad thought that Sir was very pleased with the idea. ā€œIā€™m yours, sir.ā€ At the moment, he thought he was pretty pleased with the notion, too.

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Worldbuilding Month Day 9: Building Worlds

March is Worldbuilding Month! Leave me a question about any of my worlds, and I will do my best to answer it! (I need more questions, guys)
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This ninth one is from [twitter.com profile] medicmsh3141: Whatā€™s your favorite part of mapmaking?

Oh, no, favorites!

ā€¦All of it?

Okay, so when I was working on my first-ever Nanowrimo novel, The Deep Inks, one of the flaws in that book is that I spent likeā€¦ 3 chapters describing an entirely-useless-to-plot town that the antagonists had builtā€¦ I donā€™t even remember why.

But I LOVED that town.

Forget killing my darling lines, when I worldbuild–>write, I have to kill my darling TOWNS.

Okay so.

Map-making.

First, Iā€™m rubbish at visualization, so when I make a map, I can start to actually SEE a place come together.

Second, itā€™s arts-and-crafts, and I really, REALLY like arts-and-crafts. I get to pull out the lentils/split peas/other pulses and play like Iā€™m finger painting, I get to draw shapes that arenā€™t going to look ā€œwrongā€ because, letā€™s face it, itā€™s an imaginary world. I get to get out the watercolors and PAINT.

ā€¦thereā€™s more than one reason I do all my mapmaking on actual paper with pencil. šŸ™‚

Okay, so thereā€™s the haptic side of it, thereā€™s the visualization side. Thereā€™s getting to play with logistics, too: where would they put cities? Roads? Fords/bridges?

Iā€™m gonna put floor-plan making in here too, ā€˜cause it fills many of the same urges. ā€œHow would they cram as many people as possible into this space, to both fill basic needs for shelter AND to encourage them to spread out and build proper houses?ā€

(That oneā€™s Colonize Earth, which I never did get too far with).

Maps and diagrams are all about questions. How would they do that that is different from how I would do it?

Iā€™m still not one hundred percent sure why Cya built Cloverleaf in a series of circles – but I love it. Mightā€™ve been for the tower in the middle, everything pointing like arrows at the giant thing that, after all, is not actually the school.

Anke prompted me with ā€œtreehouseā€ the other day and Iā€™m still playing with all the details of a post-apocalyptic scroungerā€™s tree houseā€¦

ā€¦I considered going into architecture, you know. Sometimes I really regret that I didnā€™t.

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