Redtail Rise XXII

she called him her name.

he would answer to both.

in the way of their kind he kissed her face over and over, ears pinned back, little whines ekeing from his throat. he was smitten with her, truly and as he had been in the first days.

and then he frisked away. augur knew they could not go far from the pups, so he would not move away from the den. he ran in small semicircles instead, inviting her with a loud bark to join him for a moment.