Ouroboros Spine raptor wrangler

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kivaluk began easily enough, but it quickly became clear that a lot was on his mind. a lot. chickadee's mouth formed into a small o of surprise as he went on, her cheeks heating as if volcanic heat jumped beneath her skin.
no one had ever asked her anything like this before.
us? us? us!?
was there an us?
and now she was thinking of antigone, how they'd been together, but not like that. and — how she felt something stirring for him also.
but it was kivaluk standing here, asking her, and a thousand things were clutching at her gut, and — "yeah. there is. potential, i mean."
the breath felt knocked from her starry-eyed lungs.