Douse This Fire

Seeing the way she smiled constantly made his heart flutter and skip, the happiness in her eyes making him feel like the only boy in the whole world. He had never felt important to someone like this before and it made him feel like he was on top of the world, like nothing could possibly ruin this moment. He grinned when she said he was doing a good job so far, his tail wagging behind him. That's all he really wanted. Her warning that she was a wildfire and to not complain if he got burned made him chuckle and smirk in response. Her fire was one of the reasons why he liked her so much. Very few women in his life ever had this kind of spirit or personality and it just made her stand out all the more from everyone else around them. "That's a risk I'm willing to take," he teased back, still grinning from ear to ear.

While he held her and scratched his claws along her back, he felt her paws move over his chest again, her back arching under his paws. A little, surprised grin pulled at his lips as he watched how just holding her like this affected her, seeing her bite her lip and hearing her murr... He had never seen someone react like this before, but even that little taste made him want to hold her tighter and keep rubbing her back, the exact opposite of what she suggested when she seemed to snap out of the trance she had been in and mentioned how he must be uncomfortable being close to her like this. "I don't mind... I like holding you," he admitted with a bashful grin. He didn't really know how to describe this draw he had to her or this winding tightness in his gut the longer he held her, but whatever it was it was addictive and he just wanted more.

He chuckled softly when she mentioned how he was going to put her to sleep, pointing out that she still had work to do. Even though he knew he should let her get back to her work and that she really had come out here with a purpose beyond just keeping away from him, it was hard for him to let her go. The way her eyelids fluttered just from rubbing her back was entrancing and if it felt good for her then why would he want to stop? "Well, I don't think the plants are going anywhere," he suggested, running his large paws over her back in slow circles. He leaned down and kissed the top of her head, giving her another smile. "I'm not really in any hurry to get back... Unless you really want to go back to gathering herbs."

Ezra Adravendi