Redsand Canyon Maybe months go by, maybe years from now

Something like that. She'd been hoping to at least set expectations, but she couldn't have guessed she'd get the answers she had out of it. I wanted to tell him I wasn't ready to be friends again so that I could stop freaking out every time I thought I might run into him. He decided to take that to mean I was accusing him of being too friendly. And of course he had to correct that, can't let me get the idea my feelings are somehow valid. She snorted, but there was genuine amusement and little, if any, annoyance to it.

She knew her mom tended to like things brief to start so she summarized the rest. Then he told me I should try bullying him into marrying me again. So I called him out for the fucking coward he is and told him to go to hell.

Fennec had no clue how Towhee would take all of this. Bronco had been both of their packmate, once upon a time, and her mom had practically been an aunt to him. Whether she agreed with what had gone down or not - it did make a pretty good story.