As their kisses collapsed them in front of each other on the stone floor, they embraced relentlessly, each bending for the other's pleasure, each part of the other's flame. The contact between them was such that, when one stroked the other, an echo of arousal would run through both; between gasps of air, Adrien tried to align Val's pleasure with his own - seeking to discover the language their bodies were learning to share. A smile of ravenous joy appeared on Val's mouth; Adrien wore it as his own as he arched his back and released himself.