I missed you in the storms

She had much to ask of him, with little to give. He had built this life with her once. He had started from scratch and built his way up, until the handmaiden believed she could be a Queen. It would be harder to do it a second time, now that he knew through and through how much he loved her. How much he wanted to hold her in his paws, and to be intimate with her.

He pulled her gently towards him at her first words. Slowly, so as not to startle her, as he wrapped her in his arms. Holding her without restraining as he lay down beside her, his warmth around her. He tilted his head to the side, as though to better listen to her.

“I can’t promise any drowning… But very well. Come the morning, I will race you across the plains” He promised her as the sound of rain only grew heavier outside their den. The thundering rain warned that the storm might yet grow worse.

He reached over, and tugged at her ear gently with his paw, tilting his head and offering her an impish smile. “And these three tasks will earn me sex?” he joked softly with her.

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