So Scary

*Anais* · 10-24-2015, 10:55 PM

Walk | Talk | Think

The golden brown wolf licked her lips after taking a drink from the stream, and sat down beside it as she forced her thoughts down paths she had been avoiding. She needed to talk to Glacier. While their relationship seemed to be headed down a strong and stable path, full of happiness and companionship to share between them, the current changes were bringing up new ideas, new paths that they could explore together. The biggest and most obvious was possibly the chance to begin a physical relationship, but, even more than that, was the option of starting their own family. The two went hand in hand in Anais's world, and she was starting to wonder if the timing was right for it. Voltage had already started a family, and they were proving that they had the skill to care for pups as a pack. And the thought of her child or children growing up surrounded by cousins and aunts and uncles, people who loved them...it made her smile.

She was still smiling when she heard the familiar tread of her love approaching, and accompanying the automatic flutter that he caused within her stomach was a little jittery sort of sensation. Had her thoughts called him to her, summoning him without realizing? Oh, if he had any idea the thoughts that had been going through her mind... She blushed beneath her fur just thinking about it, but offered him a welcoming smile nonetheless, happy to see him as always. But of everything about him, it was the rock he carried in his jaws that caught her attention the most. With it to puzzle over, she was able to forget her own thoughts, her own self-consciousness around him to focus on it, and he did not leave her puzzling over it long. He approached her and set the rock down between them, indicating it was meant for her, and offered a sweet reminder that she had embarrassingly forgotten.

The rock was beautiful, as shiny as the shoreline where they made their home and certainly the envy of many of those that Glacier's brother made a point to collect for himself. She eyed the lovely stone for a moment in wonder, amazed not only that he had been able to find it, but that he had had the forethought to get it for her as a gift to celebrate their first year of being together. Touched beyond words, her view of the stone became blurry as her eyes suddenly filled with tears, and a few leaked out as she tried to blink them away. She felt awfully silly for all of her worries then, all of the time she had been giving herself away from him. Did it matter what was decided in the end, whether their relationship would take a new turn now or sometime in the future? Whenever it happened, she knew she would always be happy with him, no matter what was decided.

She rose and stepped closer to the stone so that she could lift her paw and delicately brush it across the surface, admiring the sheen of it as it moved under her touch and caught the daylight. Anais could hardly stop herself from smiling as she looked up again into the brilliant and kind face of her big blue protector, and no matter her earlier feelings she stepped toward him, closing the distance, and reached up to nuzzle into his neck. "It's beautiful, Glacier," she remarked with awe, "thank you." She lingered there beside him, leaned slightly against him, as she was reminded of his strength, his gentleness, his patience. "I wish I had something to give you too," she added in a halting apology, though even as she said it her thoughts wound back around to where they had been just before he arrived. Against her will, she blushed again, and only hoped her close proximity to him would prevent him from noticing it in its entirety.

Art by Arin

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