Ouroboros Spine kuli ⧫

"Say the word and I'm gone."

"..The perfect man," she joked, trying to cover for the fact that she was surprised. It seemed pretty clear that if things didn't work out, he intended to be the one to pack up and go. That was unexpected.. he was here first, after all. He was the one who was actually in Moonglow. 

He wanted to do it. He wanted to do it secretly, but he wanted to do it. It was only in that moment that Lane started to feel the weight of what she had suggested. It was rapidly turning from a what-if situation into a we're-actually-fucking-gonna-do-it situation. Could she really follow through? 

It wasn't even the marriage part that was tripping her up. As Zane pointed out-- if it sucked, it was easy enough to just disappear. It was the lying and pretending part that bothered her. She had never been good at either, and she knew Kukutux deserved more than half the truth. As skeptical as Lane was about marriage, the moonwoman really believed in it. Lane didn't relish the thought of deceiving her. 

"That seems wise," Lane allowed. It was annoying that she could come up with such a great idea and then only have one person she could share it with... but Zane knew these wolves better than she did. If he thought they wouldn't go for it, she trusted that. 

Zane moved toward her, and Lane sidestepped him. In the same motion, she bent and lapped some water from the shallows, as if that had been her only intention in moving away. She wasn't phenomenal at the flirting thing-- teasing was more her forte. Her eyes found Zane's, silently tantalizing him. Daring him to move again.