aftanith | 29 Days of Smut 2016

A self-imposed challenge of my own creation, running from February 1, 2016 to February 29, 2016. I only plan to start these stories (producing around a thousand words for each), not to finish them within the month.

1.	[100moods] 92. Surprised \| Sparrow x Frost, last-name basis	2.	[15pairings] look who's on top \| top!Simon x Frost not during groupsex	3.	[50harlequins] Spoiled Rich Girl and Poor Boy \| Circle!Sparrow x Victor!Frost	4.	Alduin x F!DB x M!DB, corruption & Shout!Sex	5.	[15pairings] indecent exposure \| Galen x Frost, seduction
6.	Avery x Rylan x Jackson, dubcon & sex pollen	7.	Caderyn catches Charon x Adrasteia	8.	[15pairings] men \| Simon x Sam, first time	9.	[citrus-taste \| Kinkier Table] 44. masturbation \| Sparrow x Frost	10.	[alphabetasoup] Hades \| Sparrow x Frost
11.	Dark!Hera x everyone AU	12.	demon!Rylan x Avery x Ion, dubcon (Susanne & Myles Die AU)	13.	Dom!M!Dragonborn x slave!Ancano x slave!Ondolemar, mindbreak	14.	Domme!Esmeralda x slave!Scorpius x slave!Octavius, noncon & mindbreak	15.	Dom!Sigurd x slave!Charon x slave!Caderyn x slave!Zephyrus (+ Adrasteia)
16.	[citrus-taste] K-2. table \| Sparrow x Simon x Nadia	17.	[citrus-taste] 26. harems \| Harem/Parabellum Crossover	18.	[paranormal25] 23. writer's choice, tentacles	19.	Malene x Ancano, fantasy AU & arranged marriage	20.	[Maze of Fiends] Mate or Die AU
21.	M!DB x M!Werewolf, hentai physiology & urethral penetration	22.	[over-look] play dead \| Izzy x Octavian, necrophilia roleplay	23.	[smut-69] oil \| Sparrow x Frost	24.	[smut-69] orgy \| Sparrow x Frost x Simon x Nadia x Loretta x Izzy	25.	[lover100] S-61. secret \| Sparrow x Frost
26.	[lover-100] S-27. threesome \| Sparrow x Frost x Galen	27.	[citrus-taste] K-47. in public \| Sparrow x Frost x Galen	28.	Zevran x Lyna x King!Alistair, roleplay/raceplay #1	29.	Zevran x Lyna x King!Alistair, roleplay/raceplay #2

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Ion led him deeper into the village, taking him down a twisting, turning path that Avery quickly realized he wouldn't be able to replicate and reverse if his life depended on it (and he certainly hoped it wouldn't), until finally they stopped in front of another dark, nondescript, shadowy building Avery knew he was staring directly at the bulk of--and yet couldn't seem to wrap his mind around anyway. But when a figure appeared in the doorway--which he had been all but sure had been securely closed by a large wooden door a moment ago that seemed utterly gone now instead of merely open--he knew in an instant that Ion hadn't led him astray.

Rylan stared at him a moment, a look of utter shock on her face--

--and then she turned her gaze on Ion, fury burning in her eyes.

"What the fuck did you do?" came a low, threatening rumble in a voice he hardly recognized as her own, and Avery was rather impressed with himself for stopping his involuntary step back. "I told you to--"

"I haven't touched him," Ion protested, as at ease as ever even in the face of her rage. "He came looking for you."

Eyes narrowing slightly, Rylan glanced between. "I don't believe you," she said, voice dismissive as she glared at Ion, and then she turned to Avery. "What happened? Are you okay?"

There was a single, sharp moment of focus when Avery became painfully aware of all the emotions he'd been suppressing over the past few months. Christ, he'd missed her, more than he was ever going to be willing to admit, and even if seeing her here like this made his heart ache in its despair--this wasn't the Rylan he knew--he still wanted nothing more than to take her back with him, to pull her into his arms and drag her back to reality if that's what it took to get here there. He would've given anything, he feared, if it meant he could fix what Ion had done.

"I'm... fine," he said stiffly. It was so strange to be talking to her again, something downright disturbing in the way they were talking as if they were just estranged friends instead of... instead of whatever the hell they were.

"Then why are you here?"

He shooed away the thought that there was something almost hopeful about the way she was looking at him; either he was imagining it, or it didn't mean anything good. And he certainly didn't plan to find out which. "I... I had to tell you. Myles and Susanne, they're... they're dead."

Avery didn't miss the way she turned her fierce glare back on Ion once again, and perhaps that sight alone made this whole trip worth it. She suspected him, even now, and that more than anything proved that some part of her, at least, was still Rylan.

"Don't look at me," Ion preempted her accusation. "I already got it from him, and that's enough, thank you. You know exactly where I have and haven't been for the past six months."

Rylan was still for a moment, then gave the slightest hint of a nod before she turned back to Avery. "Do you know who did it, then?"

"I... don't. I was hoping that--well..."

One dark brow lifted. "Were you hoping that we did it, then?" she asked, a hint of pained offense in her voice. "Or that we didn't?"

All he could do was give her the truth. "I don't know."

"Then what do you want, Avery?"

He could feel their eyes fixed upon him--Ion's and Rylan's and who knows how many others'--and everything seemed to come together in that one crystallizing moment. "I want whoever did it to pay."

Rylan's eyes widened, just slightly, and Avery watched her glance again at Ion. The demon laughed. "Are you sure that's what you want, A?" Ion asked, an almost mocking smile on his lips.

Avery stared at Rylan, a small part of him convinced that she was doing this on purpose, that she was drawing something out of him that he hadn't even realized was there before he'd arrived and that he wasn't going to be able to suppress now that she'd beckoned it to light. "Not you," he said quietly, his gaze flickering to Ion. "I don't want anything from you. But Rylan--"

29 Days of Smut 2016

Evermore [3/?]