Swiftcurrent Creek if you spent your whole life working

Let it be so.

Until she would fly the roost once more, but that was still a while off. Now she would reside on this side of the mountains, along this creek, along the man who held her.

She knew to expect nothing, but she cherished what she had in that moment.

Help Jakoul?

She sought to prompt him, kind and warm. A soft shift of her body alongside his, wondering and waiting.

Still she was prepared for another rejection.