make me feel brand new

He watched the different emotions flit over the woman's face as her lovely gaze fell upon him. Suddenly, Sparhawk felt a little self conscious. Did she not want to be around him? Was she trying to leave before he came back? Then she smiled and admitted that she'd love to share a meal with him and all of those insecurities went right out the window. It was a little strange to him that Poem had roused such feelings within him just then. He wasn't prone to flights of fancy or unrealistic expectations. The red man tried to not get his hopes up at all. What had that been?

Poem led the way back into the cavern, settling back into the place where they'd spent the night together. He placed one of the freshly caught ptarmigan's in front of the woman before settling on his stomach across from her. Shrugging out of the rope that held the water skin on him, he handed it over to Poem. He knew that she would be thirsty and might very well have a headache. It would have been much worse had he not cut her off last night.

Holding the bird between his front paws, Sparhawk began plucking the feathers away with his teeth. After some plucking, he had the breasts fully exposed and began to eat the lean meat. After swallowing his first bite, the man licked the blood from his chops and cleared his throat. "When we done, I walk you home, yeah?" He was intent on seeing her all the way home to make sure that she got back to her family safely.