Ocean's Breath Plateau I want a heart unbreakable

The panther waited only long enough to see how this story landed before he gave Marina her privacy, turning his own gaze back up toward the stars. They held no significance in his culture, or in the cultures of any of the family he knew — but they were important to Marina, and so he looked up and he wondered what it was she felt toward them. What powers did they hold?

And he was yielding when he felt her heat against him, making himself into a comfortable resting place, and pressing his muzzle into her fur in a gesture that was — not chaste, exactly. But ardent in a way that began and ended with the very act. He, likewise, would not press for more — but he welcomed her against him with a spark of wonder in his eyes.