Mount Apikuni don't go out tonight

Before he knows it she has warmed up to him.  She is still colorless, her mood dour, but there is something in her whine that causes him to stop what he is doing and angle himself to look at her in full.  He sweeps one of his thin forepaws over the gentle curve of her spine.  She is not like the other woman who did not know truly what it was she wanted, and she does not play with him the same way.

Still, he must tell her, Be direct with me.  If he were younger (in mind, in body) he might have given in without a second thought — he had many children that would never know him as father.  But now that he was older he was more careful with these fragile women... and he could not help but feel used by them for surely, they only wanted him because he was available; he had never been a looker.