Sleepy Fox Hollow [M] The Ballad of Lonely Bear

He shadowed her as she cut a ring around the small herd, unwilling to stray from the sight of others. Privacy, after all, was not worth the risk it might cost the others. 

Her ears flicked when he came close. She pivoted, and lunged into a lope in a counter-clockwise circle with a toss of her mane, until she found some space-

And then, as if she had suddenly lost interest she slowed to a walk, lowered her head and began to graze, a swish of her tail the only sign she paid him any attention at all. One flick of her left ear offered some suggestion- that her attention could be caught, if it was earned. 

And she wanted him to earn it.