Redtail Rise LX

A shiver passed through Carrion as his sunflower gaze alighted upon her, a feeling that was reinvigorated when their noses touched. She shied from him as if ticklish, her voice a breathless giggle as she relished in his attention — his unspoken praise — and came wagging to stand beside him, partaking in the stream.

Her teenage crush deepened as she captured him with a sidelong eye — the assured way he moved and stood, the swipes of a long tongue into icy water — truly appreciating the largesse of his magnificent form for the first time.

Her tail wagged, wondering what he thought of her: thin and always smelling of roadkill...

wondering if the Snow Mother would be generous enough to share his affections...

She gulped down water and felt it hit her belly like a deer's kick. I must climb this Tall Hill! My head is full of birds! she cried suddenly, helplessly, stricken silly by the newness of this feeling.