Blackfeather Woods I've been walking out all on my own

Um no as your attorney I advise you stahp that
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Though she told him that he owed her nothing, he felt had though he owed her everything. Since coming to this godforsaken place from his homeland, it had always been her. He remembered when they had met. He remembered happening upon her by chance. He remembered the feeling of comfort and strange familiarity when he was around her.
The progression to partner or mate seemed natural for anyone else, but for him it was abnormal. Their agreement was strange, for he was not attracted to her at all and likely never would be. This went against everything he had been taught, and everything he knew about love and desire.
She, somehow, accepted him as he was. You should rest. He nodded slowly. Rising from the water with delicate attention, Taikon moved to their shared den. He hoped Taktuq might greet him, even in his bad way. He curled within the den's warm hollow, pressing happily against the woman he had missed most of all.
And then the fever set.