Ouroboros Spine 'cause girl, i'm on a mission

for a moment, rhaegal is almost bashful. strange, because he is no green bairn without any experience. he's shared sleeping spaces — and more — with lasses before. but this? this was different, he argues to himself. the soft flutter of nerves in his throat is because he didn't want to mess this up.

she was going to be his doewife.

it is only as she mentions her ulag — a strange word he takes to mean den — that he remembers the reality he'd forgotten, being so wrapped up in her and getting to know her: that he was in another pack's claim.

still, he trusts that if his being here — spending the night — was an issue she wouldn't have asked.

aye, rhaegal rumbles in both agreement and acceptance.