Lioness at the Gate

[the_rebel_son]

[ Continuation of this]

Lucifer had finished her conversation with Fonn to both their satisfaction but the plaza was no place to stay. After awhile, people started coming to look and in the lioness's opinion getting way to close to her kittens. An outburst where she nearly slashed a persistent individual who tried to pick one up and it was time to leave. Gently, she picked up the kittens, one at a time, and placed them in the box.

Carrying it to the villa was easy enough but the villa door was locked. She roared a couple times while pacing the front to find a way in. When none presented itself, she gave in and gracefully jumped on the roof intent on using the garden as a place to hide the kittens. Her eyes disliked the sight of the other angels in the space. Instinct and feral behaviors were running too high right now to even be in the presence of her own court. She padded her way around the edge of the roof before soundlessly gliding to the path below.

She ran for the bedroom suddenly wary that someone might see the kittens. Into the room she went, using her body to close the door behind her. It took a moment to nest up the blankets with her big paws before bringing her prize onto the bed. Gently, she placed each kitten into the mounded up blankets before batting the box off the far edge of the bed. Then she laid with them. They were all getting tired, nestling up against the body they were starting to recognize as their new mother, or settling in to nurse. Lucifer laid her head down, wings out to shelter and hide the kittens. Though her eyes are closed in rest, her ears are constantly twitching and listening.

Comments

[tryingitall]

"Am I ever not in the mood to be naughty, in one fashion or another?" He chuckles and reaches out with his Grace, pressing into hers gently.

"No, most life forms on the world I come from can't bear the actual sight of angelic wings. It's not just humans, it's nearly everything with some form of eyes and the brain structure to use them. Plants are all right if they're far enough away from the heat, but...we simply weren't designed to be wandering among delicate organisms without a vessel."

"Now, our Gabriel figured out ways around that. He was the most versatile of the archangels, I think. So it must be possible to change shape or duplicate myself, I just don't know how."

[the_rebel_son]

"It is one of the many things I love about you." The purring is reverberating in her grace as they brush against each other.

She listens as she continues to rub her head against him, pausing only to groom one if the kittens. "I did not mean outside your vessel. I thought you could show your wings safely while still within Levi."

Lucifer was still learning how this worked and while she had the gist, sometimes nuance was lost. "I could try to teach you but I suspect Belial is more suited to the task. He can become any shape he wants. He's not limited to a few forms like the rest of us are."

[tryingitall]

"No, I can't," he says regretfully. "The human body just can't support them. I don't think it would actively hurt him, but it would be like he had a death ray strapped to his back. It would still blind any mortal creature looking at us. I don't think it would make us popular."

"It's ironic, really, considering your lot are so much more powerful than I, and yet they still can wander around wings-out and get no more than a funny look or two. I think I'm a bit jealous."

Granted, he'd also have to ask Levi for permission to extend his wings through the human body, but he doubts the man would refuse him. "I'll ask Belial, then, but it won't be nearly as much fun. If you were my teacher you could keep me after class for detention."

[the_rebel_son]

"We are cursed to be unable to hide them. We had to learn ways early in our time outside of heaven."

Lucifer laughs and paws at his shoulder playfully. "If you do not listen to your teacher he may send you to the head of the school for discipline."

[tryingitall]

"Hmm. That puts a different spin on it." He sounds apologetic, but hopefully the way he runs his fingers through her downy feathers will ease any sting. "I wish I could go around with mine visible. It would mean fewer times I had to explain 'actually, I'm an angel' in the Nexus."

He laughs at the tease. "I'm pretty sure I've seen porn with roughly that plot. Count me in, though I'm reasonably sure Belial wouldn't want to know about it."

[the_rebel_son]

"I would enjoy seeing them and being able to touch them more often. They are remarkably beautiful."

Lucifer starts to laugh, half mental and half a purring growl. "He would be even more disinterested given the magic I have had him working on recently."

"I am certain the person in the porn did not get anything as good as you would."