Caught in the middle

The memory of her time alone with Aslatiel lingered vividly in her memory in the days that followed, making her flush and her heart skip whenever she would think about it too deeply. It was a dramatic shift from never considering or thinking about physical affections to that being one of the only things she could think about. She had just never experienced something like that before and it had opened up a whole new world of possibilities. It also helped that she was feeling better than she ever had. Her cough was well managed at this point and she was able to slowly begin weaning herself off of the herbs that she had been taking to control it. With the colder weather of the winter season in she had to start up her treatments more regularly again, but in comparison to how she had been living in the north this was a breeze. She was able to wander the forest they lived in easily and was slowly beginning to build up some stamina and endurance.

Still, as much as she thought about Asla and the pleasure she had gotten from the smaller woman, she hadn't let herself indulge in it again. She wanted to very much, but in the clarity that came after Asla left that day she really began to think about Ocean and the fact that he and Asla had been together first. As far as she knew they weren't exactly exclusive by any means, but it still made her a bit guilty to want to do those things with someone that Ocean felt so deeply for. The desire for it kept gnawing at the back of her mind though and at this point it was hard to think of much else. She finally found the confidence to talk to Ocean about it, returning back to the den they shared after a long, thoughtful walk full of trying to figure out how she could bring it up to her brother. Luckily he was there when she returned and she gave him a shy smile as she walked toward him, her paws crunching through the snow. "Ocean... There's something I want to talk to you about. Is now a good time?"

Chrystelle