The King of Heroes was kissing the Queen of Knights and neither was pulling away. One because he did not wish to, and the other because backing down did not seem to be at all in her mindset. Actually, given that he'd walked right up to her in such an audacious way, it wouldn't have been too farfetched for her to pull a weapon on him to stop him from this nonsense. Ah, but her body did not agree. She kissed him back fiercely as a matter of course. She had problems accepting this mentally, but that was simply a matter of never having given any man, any such consideration before. As she said, she was not the type to tell other people what to do, but she never considered the need to understand it herself. But that decision was being robbed from her brain in this meeting of lips. That hand against his chest had its finger tips shift. Were men's chest always so firm? If she was being honest she'd never really looked before and while she'd been one briefly she'd not managed to get much muscle as she couldn't grow further. Damn. This was yet another thing her mind would wander over.
That gentle upturn of his lips, should have made her scoff, but instead, she enjoyed it. Was it because of the shared activity? Was it nice to be noticed when what she thought were more worthy women had been walking around? Her body couldn't take this extra heat, her mouth opened. She could not allow him to be smug when he'd started this way. She could not allow herself to be tamed by some man just because he'd figured her out. The absolute audacity he had to make her exert herself in such a way! Whenever she figured out how to make him open his mouth he would be sorry for her approaching her in such a way. These were the thoughts of petulant adolescence, dragon resistance and desire. As her heart pumped alcohol way too much for her tiny form around her body at an increasing rhythm which flooded her ears with the sound. She couldn't even hear the noise escaping her mouth. In the same time she left herself so open her body responding enough to shift that hand of hers to the back of his neck and pull him closer. No, Artoria did not know the meaning of backing down, such was obvious whenever they fought. She did not know defiance, everyone would obey her. She did what she wanted without cease, she would follow through. Even if she had no idea how to do so.