Raw Pleasures
In the hush, I could hear my own breath hitch, the sound embarrassingly loud.
I passed a tall lectern carved with strange runes. A book rested open upon it. Not an ordinary book. Its pages were thick, vellum-like, inked with illustrations of figures in postures I recognized too easily, though I had never admitted aloud. Desire dressed as scholarship. Discipline bound in margins.
My fingers itched to touch, to turn the page, to devour the secrets hidden here. My curiosity was not innocent; it burned low in my stomach, shameful yet irresistible. Every book seemed to lean toward me, whispering promises, daring me to claim them.
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