Bearclaw Valley Now you know, all you need is me

in honesty this was her first cycle — in the wild she had always been too malnourished or too stressed for her body to handle it.

so she did not quite understand the target she had become, she did not understand the lack of safety (perhaps not from the other two resident males, but from outsiders).

she also did not yet know the consequences of said actions and how it would effect her even before birth; the days of perching at the mouth of the border alone would soon be gone, as well as picking fights with outsiders.

no matter.  it was now she was both aware of and interested in.  at his urging she lay where he motioned, and when he spoke a giddy happiness filled her.  her head pressed firmly against his, buried in her neck, and she peppered him with kisses.  she liked his voice, she wanted him to speak — even if she couldn't understand.