Redsand Canyon you were baptized in ice [m]

His presence closer to her helped lift some of the weight off of her chest just as it had the first time she’d found herself in this situation. She swallowed back the hints of shame as he looked her over, feeling him relax beside her as she tucked her head against him, simply breathing in his comforting scent for a moment as she tried to breathe, the question came again.
 
It all just came tumbling out. “I just wanted to spar… it was just a spar. I thought we both knew that.” Apparently, somewhere those wires had gotten crossed. “I know he’s always so broody but he’s an auxiliary and you all can get that way when you’re working because it’s a stressful job and he’s the closest one here to his size and I just wanted to be prepared I want to be able to defend myself if he every came looking for me but I lost and when I went limp and he wouldn’t stop and he started climbing on me.” The words hurried out at a pace, not naming names though it was not hard to guess. She felt disgusted with him, with herself as well for letting herself fall into such a vulnerable situation. The tension only increased in her muscles as the sensory memories of it all washed over her.
 
It had reminded her of him and that was something she had never expected out of a Mereo wolf.