Ocean's Breath Plateau taimma ➻

her body answered his own before she could form an answer; the duck's shoulders unknotted, the muscles along the back of her neck slackening gratefully. a breath; a second; she did not expect his question, nor the turmoil that followed. "i am afraid of you as man, revui," for within her body new lives grew, and if he was not moonspear, why should he care for them? "but i do not fear you."

kukutux did not mean to be confusing, but desperately hoped her statement would be understood. she was unfurling at the edges with tension and tiredness, torn between the feral teeth of the windswept plain and the forbidding promise of the mountain beyond revui, away from the sea, where her mate hunted and prowled the slopes of his birthright.

the duck shook her head, small paws finding hesitant surety in the cold dirt, the lick of new grass against her ankles. "you were cruel to me." her voice shook, but found a resolution behind the nervous bobbing of her throat. "i wish that you will tell me why."