Swiftcurrent Creek our cup runneth over

I’m sorry I fell behind. I’ll be sure to stay on top of things from here on out.

Something happened between sentences that changed the plans she had meant to enact in the first place, not a moment ago. By removing the third party she was proposing a challenge, which, by her very position in the hierarchy, she had every right to do. As it happened, he had every will to oblige, whether his ideas of the why were miles away from the actual fact or dead on.

He tilted his head to such a slight degree that it was almost unnoticeable. Fine, he said with a most shallow nod, eying her with a subtle case of amused suspicion and curiosity that dissolved into shrewd acknowledgement the moment his forelegs left the ground and he sprang into a lope, gesturing with a coltish toss of his head in the direction they were to go.