The dazzling smile that spread across her face made The Shade smile in return, a rare broad and jovial grin that spread across his face and made him look truly human. Only his little mage, the angel with the rosebud mouth who liked to be enslaved when she wasn't tying him up and making him beg for mercy, would treat bondage gear like a gift of expensive jewelry.

"We clean up now, we're just gonna get dirty again, I reckon." He pointed out, bending to kiss that rosebud mouth again as he rolled off of her and got to his feet, offering her a hand up. "But it's your turn, so you get to do whatever you want to me."