Bearclaw Valley tetelestai | (it is finished)

 

are you kidding me?!??! sappy xan is fav xan!

if reigi had been any other woman, perhaps xan's comment would have brought forth an untenable onslaught of aggression.  he had called her fat!  but instead she just laughed.  she did not really know the implication of what he had said; only that he looked to the blimp that she'd become and then sought her gaze.

she was also thankfully ignorant to the thoughts that had taken hold of him.  although they were positive, she did not want to think about rank or stature.  she just cared about him!  what a blessed life, to only regard such simple affairs.

his last word confused her most of all.  it did not register as common tongue by its roller coaster of inflections.  she regarded him softly, nosing his lips before butchering his lovely word, nayya-giv-get.

but it did not matter.  she could see the way he regarded her, and of course she could not forget that she was now his wife.  she could read his i-love-yous in the way he came to her side whenever someone called at the borders, in the way he brought her food now that she was mostly unable to hunt for herself.  she saw it in the soft way he regarded her, and in every subtle interaction.

and to answer your question, yes, she loved him, too.

then a bunch of stuff happened and she became his wife and also the alpha for like five seconds.