Horizon Ridge If I fall for you, I'll never recover

When he looked into her eyes, Pied almost decided not to ask the question. Then she thought, If I can't talk to him about this, then there's a problem... Kisu was to be her mate, her lifelong partner. She needed to feel comfortable bringing up any topic under the sun. Besides, her curiosity was only natural. It was just slightly awkward, she supposed, mostly due to their different sexes.

"I know you can't answer this from the female perspective but... I'm just curious. Is mating as strange and awkward as it seems?" As the words left her lips, Pied suddenly heard how childish they sounded and she snorted at herself. It was an ungainly sound and she faced Kisu now looking sheepish but somehow shameless, her fang digging into her lip to bite back more puerile noises.