Wild Berry Meadow you swallow me, i'm a pill on your tongue

he continued to watch her from the shadows, and although perhaps this stranger did not deserve it (unbeknownst to reigi), she awarded him by stripping down one of her many guarded layers.  

slowly, she lowered herself, hovering over the skull, and began to gnaw on it.  the noise of teeth scraping against bone was primal, cutting through the air, stark and different from the beautiful, frozen pastels that surrounded the pair.

she noticed his guard hairs raise although his intense gaze was shielded beneath closed lids.  she paused from her gnashing for a moment, waiting. then they opened again, consuming her whole.

she was not particularly inclined to study him the same way, reigi would much rather focus on the prize that this shadowed stranger had bestowed upon her.  but she wondered, in a shallow kind of way, what had caused him to relinquish the rotting thing?

she cocks her head at him, ears flicking back once before returning to their neutral, forward position — what now?