Oh, I need to get rid of your smell, Cyron.
She thought to herself as she had woke up on the couch, still deeply nestled within the swirl of robes that she wore all night around her naked bodice and still swimming with her wetness between her thighs, encouraged by his smell she admired so much. At this point in time for her, Aliyah would be setting herself up as a beacon to all males within the vicinity of the tavern. Heretics, exiles, rapists, the vile dragons of the towns who would thrive on having a young and untouched woman at their hands to do their will with.
It was why at such a point when her decision to escape to the Inn and clean off the musky scents from her bodice, that she pulled Cyron's robes closer to her body and tucked in such ways to keep his scent strong on her to repel other men who would dare to try and claim her. Cyron left more than enough spores of desire upon his robes to work to her advantage. However, being that Cyron was an exile to these lands, while his claiming scent might have saved her life, would condemn her life if the wrong person were to catch the lingering arousal upon her skin.
Thankfully, she still had her virtue and the belt confined on her waistline that would work to her advantage that she had not shamed her family and bloodline, despite having an encounter with Cyron. Nevertheless, she pursued the element of night still to her favor, and her training in speed had hurried her along the beaten paths that were dimly lit while the sun was starting to break the horizon line with deepset reds and purples casting over the sky.
Her breaths were out of line when she made it to the door, leaning against it for the time being while she caught it once again to score a feat that was harder. She had to make sure that nobody was inside the inn that could be disturbed or alerted to her. quietly opening the door and slipping within, her emeralds gazed sharply around and immediately her nostrils flared and her pupils dialated having identified a familiar presence now sound asleep on the lacquered and smooth surface of the bar counter within; her guardian, Jotun.
Dammit, Jotun. What the hell are you doing here? Please don't wake up.
The door was immediately closed, but without much noise made by hinge or doorknob as she was trying to remain incognito for the time being. She scaled herself along the walls, knowing it was better to avoid being near him at this time and take the long way, than to risk the short way and he awaken by being startled by the exile's spores clinging to her flesh and her wetness as an insult to that injury.
Whether Aliyah knew better or not, Jotun always had a reason for being where he was. When she didn't return last night from the tavern to the lair, he was sent out in search of her by the command of her mother. When he found her in the state that she was, he knew that his loyalties to her mother were vital, but that at the order of her father Markus, if there was a secret she had that was not life threatening, that it was kept. Her encounter with Cyron, would be kept secret for now, and that if she had planned on not waking him up, such a mission was futile as the web of magics he used alert him to presences in the tavern. After all, an elder being asleep in such a public place, he took extra measures to protect himself, and Aliyah once she arrived at this hiding place that he knew about which others didn't.
The door at the end of the hall that he could scent her towards was closed, and he smirked softly upon that unshaven face, and a rough hand rubbed over his face some to relieve the weariness from his eyes. Last night had been a crazy night with Ava, his claimed mate, before he had been sent on this assignment. He was currently adorned in a pair of jeans and a white wifebeater, which showed off his toned frame that held scars and vitality. Smiling to himself now, he pushed off the counter and slid onto the cool, hard floor. Sauntering over to the spot where he kept his bottles of scotch, he slipped one off the shelf and then began making his way towards the shower room, just under the curiosity of how she would react.