Redsand Canyon I never stay in one place too long

This was a mistake. There were a million reasons she had numbered, time and time again, as to why this couldn't happen. She'd meant it when she told Towhee she wouldn't look within Mereo for a father for her children, let alone a husband to share them. But she hadn't accounted for how her starving body and mind would betray her the instant a meal was put forth.

She responded immediately, and intimately, to his attention. This was a field and a language where she didn't need to worry - everything was explored by the closeness of touch. She was too deprived, and too hungry, to be shy about reciprocation.

Exploring his scruff and the lines of his chest, she'd worry about the consequences after. Right now she simply was.