it smells like dog in here [1]

His words were seemingly not unwelcome -- the spark of a grin was given to him, and his eyes were quick to steer their way to the proactive flash of her tail in his direction. A low rumble escaped him then, and with an even more brazen notion, the dark agouti male loped quietly to her side, casting an affectionate and heated nip to her haunch and closer to the base of her tail -- a silent approval of where they currently stood in their life, and how they had begun to mend their relationship.

Perhaps, even, as a welcome distraction, he would place his claim more officially upon her for the first time -- take her in the primal desire they had put off for so long. But never would he force anything on to her, and so his eyes would seek her out questioningly.