With Thomas’s body lifted and pressed against the wall, the Orkhai’s glowing red eyes grew brighter and fiercer as the human began to talk to try and figure a way out of the situation. It was what humans did, did they not? They would always do something, and if it were not well accepted, they would try and talk their way out of whatever situation they had encountered and expect the other party to bear their words and neglect their feelings. So, as Thomas was speaking of not intending to tempt Zilrud into anything, it had only pushed the Orkhai further along that path of feeling the deep-rooted emotion.
The words spoken were being pulled apart, jumbled in the Orkhai’s head, and turned into a bigger mess than needed. He was having difficulty concentrating on the baser meaning of the words for a straightforward fact, which Zilrud, of course, did not vocalize. The rumbling growl grew louder, the noise’s base having a broader, deeper foundation than typical for the Orkhai. With the fiery hot gaze glaring into the other’s eyes, the silence had been eliminated with the growl, but what came next, Thomas would feel it, perhaps more than the momentary fear or emotion he was feeling at the moment.
Zilrud was not a man of many words when it helped him. He was the perfect personification of the age-old adage, actions spoke louder than words. So, at that moment, that had a potential ending for Thomas to end with his throat ripped open and the Orkhai swallowing every droplet of blood flowing from the slowly dying heart, beating its last dregs of the life-giving crimson nectar flowing through Thomas’s arteries, Zilrud acted.
Before Zilrud realized what he had done, the human would feel warm, leathery lips pressing against his softer, pinker ones. The large green head had tilted just enough to allow the different positions to bring their lips together. His mouth was large enough to pull human bones into it and crunch them down, but for that moment, his lips pursed to meet Thomas’s own. And while his lips endeavored to press against the other’s, a single tusk dug in against Thomas’s cheek. Zilrud had made sure, in that split-second, that his tusk would not gore the boy and, instead, dimpled his softer flesh as he kissed him.
As the rumbling growl lifted, from his chest, through his throat, and into his mouth, both tooth and tusk, as well as his lips, vibrated just the slightest as the sounds of sharp claws pricking their tips into the soft linen of the shirt that Thomas had worn could be heard. Zilrud’s clenched fist had tightened so much that the edges of his knuckles began to turn a lighter green as each claw tip pierced the soft fabric, the Orkhai’s lips pulled back, and the following action, and the next, came without thought.
The larger head pulled back and leaned to the side quickly, and just as soon as the leathery lips had found, softer, sharp, flesh-shearing teeth found their purchase against a portion of bared flesh along Thomas’s neck. The Orkhai was hungry. It was a hunger not many others could understand and what truly made Zilrud a potential monster walking among humans. With teeth sinking in against the softer flesh, threatening to tear it, the Orkhai thought about it. He was thinking of sinking his teeth in completely, severing the other’s carotid, swallowing down the blood that would gush over his face and throat. The pure joy he would feel, the rush the scent of blood would give him, was near euphoric to imagine.
In those most impure thoughts, green eyelids closed over his eyes as his fist, pinning Thomas, relaxed enough to open into a wider spread hand, holding against the man’s chest. The holes that had been made in the fabric would give quick glimpses to the unmarred flesh beneath until something urged the Orkhai on. The desire to sheer the man’s meat grew more desirous to Zilrud, and as his teeth scissored just enough against Thomas’s neck, his tongue slathered over the morsel he was tempted to rip from its host, devouring it with possibly a quick chew and a swallow. Once more, the sound of tearing could be heard. This time, the claws dragged downward as Orkhai’s other hand came to support Thomas. The claws stroked down, as an angle, from Thomas’s left pectoral, down across his sternum, and towards his right set of obliques.
In the wake of the nails shredding the fabric, exposing more of Thomas’s flesh, it was also growing slick and wet. Along with the change in texture, the previously white fabric was growing crimson in some places. The scent of blood permeating the air caused Zilrud’s nostrils to flare. With a forced pull, teeth scraping but not drawing blood, leaving an abrasion of red against the pink flesh, he looked down at the crimson staining the cotton along the other’s chest, and saliva dripped from his hungering maw. From over his lower lip, the clear saliva dripped in a single strand, teetering for a moment as the near bungee-like connection to the Orkhai’s lower lip pulled taut before snapping, the remnant of drool falling to soak into the chest of the garment the Ork was wearing.
A thought ran through his mind, an idea solely in his original tongue; Mor’Drub had connected deep within Zilrud to make him want something. He had grown too comfortable in those moments. Whatever sense of humanity he had taken into his code of honor had been shed for the briefest moments, and the Orkhai brute many would know him to be had reared its head. It was a simple fact. He wanted to rip Thomas open and taste his insides.
Suddenly, it was like a snap of the fingers. The snap sent a chill running up the monster’s spine, and he realized what he had done. Still holding Thomas to the wall, the abrasion(s) to the boy’s neck and the bleeding from his chest could be seen. The scent of intoxicating blood could be smelt, and he realized what he had begun to do. The hand holding Thomas up had released him, and Zilrud took a step backward, looking at the results of his momentary lapse in realizing Thomas was a softer, more fragile being than a fellow Orkhai. In two quick actions, he had drawn his blood, nearly chewed through his neck, and wanted to devour him in the most primal, bestial sense of the definition.
The ferocity in the eyes bled away nearly as quickly as the crimson took to Thomas’s shredded front of his white shirt. Taking a few steps back, it was a sobering realization to the Orkhai of what he had done. As leathery brows attempted to knit together, red orbs turned from murderous, hungering, and ferocious to pensive and even sad.
“I.. W-w… Wa…”
Irritation and annoyance came across his face as his head was jumbled, his mind was not wholly one of a single mindset, and he was having difficulty finding words to communicate. So instead of trying to talk, he glared at the floor in his self-reprimanding thoughts before the little Lordling.