Lake Rodney i will fly

he answered her near prayerfully. teya watched, somehow suspended outside of herself; fire followed his lips and she answered with a slight parting of her own.
unaware that the response of her body was only an inkling of what was to come in the arriving weeks, the beginning of something she had not yet experienced — her breath washed over his seeking muzzle.
throat tightening; mouth run dry; she was unsure of what might happen next and yet fully malleable, for so long as he remained careful with his caress, she had no reason to run from it.