[Day 4 - LE] You Got Me...

[Moto Khulun]

“She is good kisser, it is known,” she teases.

“Did Lion like it?”

[Matsu Nintoku]

"I don't know. It was both the worst and best I've ever had." he replied candidly "I have nothing to compare it with."

[Moto Khulun]

“For shame,” she says with a gentle tsk tsk.

“I will have to give her a stern talking to, I thought better of her. To kiss a Lion,” she teases and then whistles for Oguro to come near.

The horse approaches.

[Matsu Nintoku]

The Lion smiled expecting that reaction from the Moto. He had come to learn that everything was a struggle with the barbarian princess. He grabbed her by the hand and pulled her towards him, enabling him to embrace her with his free arm. A grappling technique turned into a hug - of sorts.

He then reached to her and planted a kiss in her lips. "Yesterday your sister stole my kiss. Today I steal it from you." he said in a hoarse voice "Now I can compare. You are better"

[Moto Khulun]

She forgets about Oguro for a moment and returns the kiss savagely and is pleased with the results. She says with rain drizzling down her face, “You Lion are fierce but slow to act, took you long enough.”

[Matsu Nintoku]

"This... this isn't easy," he admitted, a fierce red claiming his whole face as he caught up with what he had just done. "You are the first woman I've thought of like this..."

"To make it easier I just picture this as a fight," he admitted only realizing the folly of his words after setting them free. He was at a loss of words unsure what he could say to mend that.

[Moto Khulun]

“Good, mother says best matches are often like fight, both sides want their way, there is conflict and passion but then you find the middle,” she says taking the reigns of oguro with one hand and then guiding him past using her free hand to smack Nintoku on the bottom as she passes.

“My father spent a thousand days hunting down a white mare for my mother, and then stood outside her yurt for six days before she even spoke to him. Out passions run deep, it is known,” she says with a wink.

[Matsu Nintoku]

"I never asked how my mother had met my father but if I recall some of the stories, she beat him bloody during a fist fight only marrying him because at least he had lasted longer like the others." he revealed "My mother is a passionate woman. In her the blood of Lady Matsu burns even brighter."

"So how is the score between us now Khulun-san?"

[Moto Khulun]

“No score Sayedda Nintoku, it is what is. As grandmother says in love, if one is winner then you have shamed the other. Best match, find path together, even if it take many moons,” she says ruefully.

[Matsu Nintoku]

"Good." he said with a small smile, his cheeks flaring at the mention of love "Your grandmother sounds as a very wise person."

"Whatever that path is," he motioned around "I hope it is far drier than this one."

[Moto Khulun]

She gets astride her Oguro and says, “She was blood sword for many summers, then wise women for many more. She mid-wife, was first to hold me when born.”

[Matsu Nintoku]

"Did she name you?" he recalled that Amaya had told him that she'd been name in honor of a storm

[Moto Khulun]

“She gave me birth name, I choose name later, as is way,” she says.

“I honor her.”

[Matsu Nintoku]

"I honor one of my ancestors with my name as well," he seemed to be pleased with her answer, it seems Amaya was the exception "He was a hero of the Lion that defeated the king of the Mountain Giants in the early days of the Empire. I have never seen a mountain giant so it must be true."

[Moto Khulun]

“Mountain giants, now that is a story I want to hear!” she says with great interest.

“But another night, Sayyed,” she says kindly looking down.