Chimera Fields may it be a light to you in dark places

she moved closer, flattery on her lips — velen watched helplessly. she seemed to all but glide forth across the snow. "you're the first to say that," the boy murmured, letting his chestnut eyes rove over her finely-built form. he shook himself from that as soon as he could, however — he had been raised in more mannerly a way than that.
"what's your name?" velen inquired. the elk were mere dots in the distance; he had been intending to chase them another time, and while the instinct still tugged at him, a larger part of the stormrift wolf was content to drink in the feral beauty of his new companion.