Blackfoot Forest Step by Step

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Her smile faded and she glanced at him through the corner of her eye. "Unfortunately for you, I'm happy to live as a bachelorette." She didn't have much of a choice, but she'd moved past the point of complaining. It wasn't any use. This was her lot in life, and honestly, it wasn't so bad.

"Some of them do, but I don't put much stock in them." Physical attraction was surface affection, and never lasted long. Andalusia didn't have much to say after that, and offered Sebastian a shrug. "Maybe." She had learned to content herself with a future of running alone, though there had been days as a yearling when she'd pined for the affection of a man. Her eyes glazed, and she shivered at the chill bite of a morning gust. "Enough of that." The memory still stung, and she honed her focus on the brightening land before them.

Deep woods stretched over near horizon and crawled up a slab of mountainside, flattened at the top. She glanced back at Sebastian and cast him a questioning look. "See your home yet?"