King Elk Forest What Arrows

While Rowan didn't know the depths of Aria and Lasher's feelings towards one another - if there were any feelings or if there had just been a response of bodies as had been with them, still, Shrike was at least on the right track. Rowan could not bother with the thoughts of the pale female anymore, not without sacrificing her energies and efforts that should have been solely with her growing children. Rowan drew in a deep breath when she felt Shrike's nose brush against her ear and for an utterly selfish moment she relished in the touch of someone with no obligations to her. He was doing so because he wanted to and his brief touch meant so much to her. 

She'd blame it on hormones later, she'd call it the folly of being overwhelmed. She leaned into the touch before he pulled back and let the silence consume them again. "Would you come back to see me?" She asked, daring to be even the slightest bit hopeful that she might get to see him again.