Redhawk Caldera run away with me now

Woah.  His voice started out small, but she felt his breathing pick up as he went, and immediately she kicked herself for setting it off by pushing.  She was still getting used to how hard certain things were for him, and for the first time, she wondered if maybe she'd misjudged things previously.  Maybe she needed to get used to just giving a little more time.

She didn't know exactly what to do to help, so she took a guess and moved in closer, sitting up so that her side fit with his and she could press the full length along.  Then she started to, methodically, comb through the fur at his neck and behind his ears, waiting for his breathing to calm.

She didn't want him to miss what she wanted to say, so she waited a bit before she answered.  She could only guess at what he'd been meaning to talk about, but 'later' was a strong concept for both of them.  It wasn't hard to connect the dots, even for her.

Later, we decide together.  If the travel isn't a big deal, that matters.  Because it means, later, it doesn't matter where we end up.  We can all still see each other.  Here or there, she wasn't sure she minded, just so long as when that time came her sister and Eljay were both a strong part of her life.  Right now she needed to be there for her sister, to help her to get settled and to find the happiness she deserved.  She'd found her own unexpectedly, but that didn't mean she could just check out and run off with her 'happily ever after'.  Life didn't really work that way.

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