What happened?

She raised her hand, carefully traced a broad line on his chest with her fingers, and was shocked at the brute force that spoke from the traces of his torment. The monster inside of her howled desperately, urging everyone to find who had done this to him and to execute them in the most terrible way. To organize a carnage that would frighten their other enemies, so that they would understand that Pareios was taboo to them, or otherwise they would bitterly regret it.

She felt how he shuddered at her touch. He had bowed his head and closed his eyes. For no cost in the world would he let her see the full effects of that night. He exuded calm control as she noticed his skin getting hotter and hotter under her fingers. It literally ignited in the ice-cold water and soon the air around him began to steam. Her eyes went up his neck and finally caught his face.

He had opened his eyes now and found hers to look at hungrily. The fireflies in the summer twilight shone with full fo