Redtail Rise It’s Chemical

He folded down beside her and Masque immediately gravitated toward him, shuffling a little so they molded together. After this, they would both smell of one another. This thought pleased her. Soon everyone on the rise would know they belonged to each other.

That prompted her to murmur, I think this probably goes without saying at this point but… you have me too, Riley.

Masque complemented this vow by sliding her snout beneath his again, then pressing forward until her head rested in the space between his head and his chest. Lying down like this allowed her to rest her cheek against the broad expanse of said chest, her ear pressed to it.

She counted his heartbeats, the steady sound lulling her into her first restful sleep since Avicus’s death.