Sly Fox Sand Dunes [m] And without you is how I disappear

SORRY HES LIKE THIS

in truth, zoug did not know what had come over him. he knew only that the presence of such large emotions had always been a reason for him to retreat, since he was a boy.

now alone in the desert, he automatically fell to tracking for prey and measuring the horizon, but his heart was not in it.

candle found him and he stared at the shimmer of sand-grains glistening in the curve of her flank, her scent affecting him enough to bring a flutter to his eyelids.

"i wanted you to be certain," zoug finally said, knowing candle had learned enough of his language to follow. "i did not doubt you. but all of this is your choice."

softly he resisted no longer; he lowered down to press his forehead against the lovely hollow of her hip, soothed by this contact even as his heart started a faster cadence.