She clung tighter, one of her arms finding its way under his shirt and another down his pants.

Focus... focus on- ...

...damn that felt nice...

Both hands continued stroking him as all other sounds but her voice seemed to completely stop, along with all sensation save for that brought by her fingers and the soft mounds of her breasts pressing against his back.

Fo-

..-yeah, right, like there was a chance of that with the way she was touching him...

“Just sleep now, I will explain everything soon... very soon, so sleep my pet... sleep..."

She continued to whisper into his ear and he continued to weaken, his eyes rolling back in pleasure and he finally falling into her arms ina blissful slumber.

Van awoke to utter darkness and in a panic briefly struggled only to find that while he was not bound uncomfortably tight, he couldn't move much at all either. Indeed his bonds seemed to tighten just enough wherever he happened to move to keep him from getting anywhere. They were strange ropes, assuming they were ropes, indeed they felt nothing like ropes. Still in a panic he found he could move his mouth a bit at least and promptly bit at whatever was being used as a gag only to find it hard like chain mail armor. It gave under his bite but only somewhat and he couldn't hope to bite through it.

“I'm going to let you go, so please calm down" came a familiar voice near him, though she now sounded tentative and apologetic rather than forceful or enchanting.

Figuring it was worth a try he ceased struggling and was rewarded as he felt the odd gag slide away from his mouth, though otherwise he remained bound and blinded.

"Serafina? What's going on, what did you do to me?!" Van was understandably more than a bit angry.

“I'm sorry about earlier, and about this, but I needed to make sure you would hear me out," she explained in earnest. "I promise, I won't hurt you, but I can't let you go just yet either. Please don't be angry, I want- I need you to Listen to me before you make any decisions."

“*Listen,' like that hypnosis-trick you used before?" he replied testily, recalling how she had put him to sleep.

“No, no more charmed speech, just normal talking, I promise," she assured him hastily.

Van was still a bit annoyed. "I don't see how this can be considered normal. And you seem to have been making a lot of promises Lately."

“And I intend to keep them," Serafina replied. "Besides, my charm voice doesn't work as well if you're expecting and resisting it.”

"Good to know," Van said with just a bit of exasperation as he calmed enough to take note of how worried Serafina sounded.

“Look, I'll say it again, I want to see you. You really think I'd come all the way down here just to run away?"

“Well... no, but-"