Duskfire Glacier [m]wen se solèy la

her growls became soft yelps, soft cries that twisted back into snarling; she flashed and scintillated below him, even as he opened a rivulet of blood along each of her shoulders.
panting, she met the strained rein of his implacably volcanic stare; a grin cut darkly along the edge of her jaw and she lifted her shaking body deliberately, tongue lolling.
she faced into the brimming light of pouring morning; she sent a glinting look along her ruddy shoulder and paraded backward into the hard metal circlet of his arms.