Swiftcurrent Creek tomorrow’s kings

The names he gave were quite striking. He supposed Suzu had chosen them, though he wondered if Etienne had helped. He sounded like the pup’s father figure, for all intents and purposes. He tried to remember if Etienne had mentioned their actual father. Hadn’t he said he was around, while making it sound like it was almost on a probationary basis?

Cambria thought to ask, though Etienne’s comment distracted him. Why that statement should make the yearling’s stomach flip-flop, he couldn’t say, nor could he explain why the phrase, I would have your babies, drifted through his mind. It was absurd on so many levels.

In fact, a laugh burst out of the yearling’s mouth before he could stop it. He swiftly brought up a paw to cover his mouth, two-toned eyes going wide as they clung on Etienne’s face. Oh, great, now he would think Cambria was laughing at him.

Sorry, I swear I was laughing at my own idiotic thoughts, he was able to rush out, and not at you. I would never laugh at you, Eti, felt very important to put out there. I’ve wondered before how that might work, if I ended up with another man.

If he was aware this was a revelation of any kind, his face didn’t show it. Cambria had experienced attraction to both sexes, though nothing remotely notable until crossing paths with Etienne. And beyond an idle thought or two to how a same-sex pair couldn’t bear offspring, the Dragonling hadn’t spent much time on thoughts of courtship, procreation and the like.

But he was certainly thinking about all of it now, with his eyes glued to Etienne’s beautiful face.