Blacktail Deer Plateau beguiling

 

The innate thoughts that kept running through her head were a cacophony of possibilities - things that might never come to be, things that might have already happened and she just didn't realize it. She breathed out into his fur, looking up only when she felt his attention so intensely on her. She couldn't offer him promises she couldn't keep. She wouldn't do it either, but then, what would he promise her? The moon, the sun, the stars themselves? A woman with her head in the clouds she was, but she wasn't so swept away by such words that she forgot the truth that might lurk behind them. 

Grayday hadn't given her any reason to doubt him or his intentions. That wasn't what was happening. But still, there was a great deal more at stake by means of the little lives he so carefully tended to. "I want to meet your family," She admitted almost bashfully, asking for more without offering the words. She didn't need to. That was the next step, and one that would dictate every step afterwards.