Wheeling Gull Isle shouklaka

"he knows how i feel," was all heda said. bartholomew had been particularly hard to figure out when it came to his exact feeling on her, but from the looks of it he held no romantic sensation, just a deep love for the pale girl who had been at his sides for some months now.
heda told herself to be contented with it.
but a smaller part of her cried out against the unfairness of it. wouldn't it be easier if she had fallen for ensio or caracal or even sobo? if she weren't bound to this good earth not only by her want but her desire for the darkfurred man?
grinning belatedly at his joke, and making no move to pull her paw away, heda sighed. "i — ive decided to have children and raise them here, caracal." she looked toward him and his redstained ears, and smiled in resolution. "blueberry said she'd stay and help me. would love if you — didn't stay a stranger." but this was becoming his home, wasn't it?