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It was hard to keep still when she was prowling around him like this. All his instincts told him she was up to something, and it didn't seem to be her usual face-chewing. So he flinched back just a hair when her nose touched his. He'd almost convinced himself to relax when her tongue darted out to lick him.

An electric current zinged down his spine. Catamaran stretched his neck to follow her as she drew away, scarred nose twitching as he drew in the scent of her breath. Dead animals — his favorite. And a kiss, he thought, or something like it. He wasn't sure what it was for — she couldn't just be pleased with him, could she? — but he liked it all the same.

She was, he'd recently decided, a beautiful creature. Or perhaps he'd just spent too much time admiring watching her.

There was an embarrassingly long pause before he realized she'd answered him.

"What gifts?" he asked her, some of the hazy intensity fading from his expression.