and your shade dappled smile

Somehow their affection was even easier afterwards, like any barriers had been torn down and all that was left was pure affection and lust. She returned his kisses, soft and satisfied as he felt. As he asked after her though Duch pressed her body close to his again. He basked in the aftereffects with her, running his paw over the back of her head and down her neck as she answered him. Indigo couldn’t have asked for a better answer. He’d been hesitant at first but now that he could see her and how pleased she looked Indigo wouldn’t have changed a thing. He’d indulged and she had done the same, and they both felt that they had gained from the intoxicating experience.

He wrapped his head around her in a closer embrace and smiled there in the sunny meadow. ”Good. I didn’t want to hurt you,” he said softly as he nuzzled into her soft ears. She spoke up again, a soft word of forever. The words were almost troubled, as though she could sense the deeper sorrows that haunted the man who held her. ”Hmm forever?” He tried to tease her and direct the conversation elsewhere, suddenly feeling guilty as he steered away from being honest with her. How could he tell her about Aslatiel the moment after she’d given herself to him? ”I thought we were going to go swimming?”

The grin her wore wasn’t forced, but it didn’t feel genuine to Indigo as he betrayed her trust and confidence by staying silent. Surely she had an idea that she wasn’t the one and only? Cosette was living proof of that. Indy tried to shoo the thought from his mind as he held the dainty girl. None of it changed how he felt about her, nor what he wanted for her.