Horizon Ridge The curse of much knowledge is often indecision.

<3 So sorry..it's been a rough week. :C

Her teasing lilt stirred a small smile to his lips, finding comfort in the ease in which they settled to one another’s company. He hadn’t felt such a connection before – spare with his family, and his eyes studied her with a certain warmth. She would brush to his flank in playfulness every so often, and briefly, he considered her words before nodding toward the forest that emerged before them in the near distance. “There,” he rumbled, keen to see her reaction as he mentioned it. Somehow, the fact that she might hate it worried him – and he wondered then if he would change his mind of his spot to claim.
 
How was it that a stranger had such an effect on him?
 
“Stay with me.” The words slipped past with a definitive rumble – a certain need, and he had not expected to be so forthcoming toward the dragoness.