Swiftcurrent Creek and you thought one day you'd be happy

lestan followed and little by little jakoul set a boundary-line behind which he felt quite a bit more safe. he was absolutely following temptation, but the little glints of her teeth said she would not allow him to succumb to it.
and so he followed and pulled away in a lope, trying to distract himself with little mice-tracks or where a woodpecker had drilled into an oak trunk, and so on and so forth, leaping back to their play when it felt she wanted his attention again.