"I didn't think that we were." Riley replied, bumping his nose into Tao's shoulder. he closed his eyes and leaned in to press his lips into the vampire's skin once more. He slid his hands up Tao's skin and rested their palms on his sides. "I like doing this." He murmured, lapping the sweat and the blood from his skin, like an animal licking a salt lick for his personal pleasure. "Mm." He murmured, "Like- the old trees and the old earth." Deep, deep under all of the overtones and undertones and everything in between, Tao smelled like swirling tendrils of old magic. "I just want to keep tasting you."