Mount Everfall scintillate bright like a diamond

he could see the familiar borders of the Creek up ahead, but he slowed, moving in front of Laika to halt her as well. "do you feel ... different? y'know, now that we are ... together?" he stammered, wanting to understand that she felt the same as he, or if he was an anomaly, alone in his stupid head. his eyes searched her own; he wondered if they had been too hasty after all. he'd wanted to ask her when the herds came home, but now was as good a time as any, he figured. 

quietly he waited for her response, while a breeze lifted into the thin air and cooled them with little murmurings of its breath; he watched the way it played across Laika's pale fur, and was unable to hide a slow smile.