Spotted Eagle Mountain that shattered feeling, well the cause of it's a lesson learned

though he wanted to recoil, to jerk away from the girl, merrick instead held himself tensely below her inquiring muzzle. touch of another was something he had forgone since nunataq had betrayed him; his body saw it only as a threat.
and when he could bear it no longer, the boy did not seek to escape her questing lips, but instead sank his chin upon his forelegs, melting into himself as the flame of his copper eyes churned toward nothing in particular.