Sleepy Fox Hollow Lilac and gooseberries.

Fade soon?

Warmth.

It bloomed in the pit of her abdomen, and she shuddered with a reluctance to embrace it. No, the tawny wolfess willed it away with gritted teeth and splayed lobes, not yet, not yet, not yet!

But her silent pleas went ignored and when the release came, it was as glorious as she remembered. Nyx let go, satisfied, and cried out as satisfaction swept the tension from her taut nerves.

A moment of life breathed back into her, wonderful and tragic all the same.