Something broke.
Pouting on a parking barrier outside a club, a blonde played with the hem of her skirt resting hardly halfway down her thighs. Many were looking, but her attention laid on the broken pieces of porcelain scattered around her heels. 'Beautiful, come back inside!' a man beckoned, but she ignored him and gave the sky one last teary glance before getting up.
Why are you upset? What has brought me here?
She was moving then, in high heels with a lot of hips, and he followed like a perfume through the air. The power coming off of her was enthralling. Thoughts drifted in and out of his mind without much substance or consequence as she crossed the street and entered a unique looking shop.
Chimes played twice as she entered, though she did not notice. In here he was closer, hovering above her heaving chest, able to examine the ink running from her eyes, the crisscrossing designs on her choker and whimsical watercolor tattoos, instincts telling him to become closer...
"What have you done?" the shop owner asked. Another woman, this one with her head half-shaved and silver piercings all over.
"You said it would protect me! Well it didn't and now he's-- he's broken up with me! Men are so fucking stupid. Fucking stuuuuupid! Why's it they think they know every-fricken-thing? Like the world literally can't be another way. He even brought up his mom, Beth. What the fuck wrong with me?"
"Stop, Claire! Where is the totem?"
"That charm? Beth, I broke it! If it's not going to protect me from him then what's the use?" She threw her purse onto the table.
"Why would it protect you from a breakup, Claire? Does that sound like mortal danger to you?" She looked up then, her eyes like little sapphires gleaming through the veil. He had a feeling she could see him, but not the mind to know if that was possible.
"When did you break it? If we don't--"
Her pull was intoxicating. He had hands now, invisible yet able to reach and touch her. And Claire's voice was sending shivers through him so strongly he couldn't help but grasp her throat and feel the source of the hum. Contact with her neck felt like physical fire, filling him with substance and need -- primeval needs. Without thinking he was licking her from sternum all the way up to her neck.
She tasted like sweat and the vibrations that occurred when a metal was struck.
"Claire!" Tabetha screamed.
"I can't.... Breathe..."
Her top parted like wet paper, revealing her two beautiful breasts pinched by jewelry through the nipples.