Overture Downs seekers wish

It means, ‘so be it,’ or ‘let it be so.’ He smiled in delirious bliss, eyes closed against the snowstorm’s lash, clouds billowing around his muzzle as he breathed into the freezing wind— a welcome reprieve from their torrid affair.

Her accent, her laugh was music to the wolf’s ears. I said it after a prayer I gave in my head, he admitted openly. I was taught that it is an expression of faith… but I believe it to be an expression of desire. Winter’s Wake was not too pious to be an independent thinker. Most prayers, after all, came in the form of wants.

Most of his prayers, anyway.

He wormed nearer to bury his face into her plush chest. He nuzzled deep, as if to burrow greedily beneath her skin, and fell nearly deaf to her offer of learning his prayers.

The snowserpent’s head reared back to look at her, surprised. He knew he was a fantastic lover, but he’d never fucked a woman into converting before. You have heart for the Rhythm? In his slow, warm voice, he sounded almost skeptical.