Redsand Canyon (M) The needle.

She nodded when asked about Arsenio, though Towhee didn’t comment. She still didn’t have the full picture with that guy. She totally agreed about Tamar, though, and tapped her tail at the mention of the woman’s name. The Plebeians here were far more welcoming than the Auxillia, that was for damn sure.

You a virgin? Towhee guessed with a good-natured snicker. Well, I’m a nasty slut and proud. I’ve lost track of how many dudes I’ve banged, to be honest. My first few heats were, shew… She waved a paw meaninglessly. It’s like my downstairs brain took over the entire time. Last year was pretty tame, though…

She’d had a mate then, and Towhee abruptly wondered if her body had somehow known that, making her heat more sedate since it didn’t need to drive her out to seek some strange. What if it returned with force this season? It was weird, being unable to decide which was more worrying: going into heat or not going into heat…