Time's Up

As Duchess began to fall asleep, he watched her for a few moments with a soft smile on his features before shifting slightly so that he could slip a foreleg around her and pull her closer, giving her the upper part of his other foreleg as a pillow so he could be sure that she would be more comfortable laying on this stone ledge. The steady sound of the rain was soothing and with her warmth pressed into him it was easy for him to relax and start drifting to sleep as well. He didn't sleep quite as deeply as she did, hovering in and out of sleep just to make sure that if something appeared in the cave with them then he'd be aware enough to react.

He wasn't sure how long they slept like this, but at some point a combination of the light now filtering into the cave from a skylight above them and the feeling of her shifting in his embrace started to pull him out of sleep again. At first he thought she had just been rolling or shifting in her sleep, but then he felt her press into certain parts of him, her tail brushing his leg. In this groggy, half asleep state his body almost acted on instinct, his forelegs tightening around her to pull her tighter into his chest his hips pressing into her while he blinked open his silver eyes. He shifted his gaze to look down at her, trying to decipher if she was truly asleep or not.

With a slight smirk on his lips he bushed his muzzle against her ear and cheek, nuzzling through the fur on her neck as he tried to gently pull her from sleep if she wasn't already awake, the paw around her gently tracing her side. After how their first time together he hadn't tried to purse anything like that with her again. He was a sexual creature without a doubt, but he was also too cautious about over stepping a boundary that he would never do anything without being sure that's what she wanted.

Segin Epsilon