Redtail Rise my oh my

the notes in new snow's throat changed, deepened.

he felt her eagerness sparkle electric between them and his body responded as did all of him, mind, flesh, spirit.

augur took a long moment to preen her shoulders with a nurturing love before he wound his powerful arms around her body.

their sizes did not matter so long as he was mindful, and for a long while the man was neither rise wolf nor hunt leader.

he was only mountain boulder and new snow was the world around his senses.

***

for a while they would break from the attending of nature's ardency. secondmost to augur's liking was a hunt with new snow. he nipped toward the fur of her left hip, not quite touching, and his sunlit eyes asked her away with him for a while.