36: longing

ex·i·gen·cy
1. exigent state or character; urgency.
2. (usually exigencies) the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition, etc: "the exigencies of city life."
3. a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy; emergency: "He promised help in any exigency."

His skin was soft against her neck, with subtle hairs brushing her skin like an unseen spider's web. She fell into his embrace as it closed around her, smile never wavering, eyes glistening with the milky obliviousness of liquid innocence. She looked up past his dark beard and lonely wrinkles. Leaning back into him, she left a soft breeze pass between her lips to tickle his ear. The feeling shocked him. But then her elbow was in his gut and she was twisting away, screaming but with that smile migrated to her eye and the naive curtain dropped, and they were back in the club, and people around them were gasping.