Redtail Rise I'm with you

Saena's very first instinct when Reek laughed at her was to feel indignant. Indeed, she was about two seconds from snapping at him to defend herself, but when she opened her mouth to retaliate, it was a laugh that bubbled up instead. Soon enough she was laughing so hard that she had to sink to her rump on the damp floor of the cavern, but between spurts of laughter she wheezed out, "I hate you," in as kind a way as those words could sound.

He bid her to rise again when he touched her, offering to do things right this time. Evidently, he had something she didn't, which she would later confirm with an equally embarrassing inspection... but that would come later. He grappled her into his arms, holding her tight—she couldn't escape even if she wanted to, which she didn't—and when he murmured her phrase back at her, the alpha female wiggled under him and taunted, "whatcha waiting for, Christmas?"

That was all the encouragement either of them needed to celebrate their new home below the curtain of a waterfall, where none could easily see or hear them.