My Earth, Moon, and Stars

Tamsyn settled into Kane happily as he wrapped a foreleg around her, his paw tracing over her stomach and side making her grin widen with a murr. "Mhmm..." she mumbled with a chuckle when he asked if she was feeling things nuzzling into his fur and enjoying how every touch felt even better and more hightened than she ever remembered it feeling—and it was only getting better as more time passed and the drink and alcohol really began to set in. She smirked and looked up at him with heavy lidded eyes at the promise that she would get to feel everything she hinted at many, many times tonight. First an amazing dinner, all these extra treats to go with it, and now the promise of fantastic mating for desert? What more could she want for her prize turned birthday surprise?

As if reading her thoughts, Kane mentioned that he had something for her, making her brows lift with surprise. "There's more?" she asked with a laugh. "You really are spoiling me today." Just the picnic and night out together was more than enough of a gift as far as she was concerned, but she was still interested to see what else he had up his sleeve when he leaned over to retrieve a leather pouch from where he had hidden it, eyeing it curiously as he opened it to reveal his gift. Her eyes widened when she saw the pair of feathers he presented her with that was adorned with a bead that very nearly matched the color of her eyes. She picked up on the fact that it was like the feathers he wore behind his ear pretty quickly, but she certainly didn't know the meaning behind them until he began to explain.

She lifted her gaze to look up at Kane while he told her what the feathers meant in his tribe, how important they were for two wolves that wanted to tie their spirits together, and how the feathers he wore now were the feathers he was supposed to give to his former mate to be. Emotion welled up in her chest as her foggy mind started to connect the dots and she looked back down at the beautiful white feathers he had put together for her, lifting a paw to brush them gently before they disappeared from view as Kane tied them into the fur behind her ear. Once she felt the slight weight of the bead in her fur and the slight brush of the feathers dangling against her neck she looked up at him again with tears starting to pool in her love filled gaze. What had felt like a sweet, fun evening suddenly felt like it had so much more meaning. She couldn't keep her tail from wagging like crazy as he continued with the sweetest words she thought she had ever heard.

A huge smile pulled across her lips as he asked her in the most beautiful, eloquent way she could have imagined to be his mate. She had gone from thinking that all hope had been lost, that she would never again find love like this or be loved by anyone in return to now laying here wrapped in Kane's arms, the most beautiful gift hanging from her fur as a constant reminder of the love they would always share. She was speechless in the best way as she replayed the new name he offered her in her mind over and over, looking up at him dumbfounded by the fact that he had given her this incredible, amazing hope and love and a whole new lease on her life that she now got to share with this wolf that made her feel so whole. Tears spilled over onto her cheeks as she laughed giddily and twisted to throw her forelegs around his neck, pressing her muzzle to his in a deep, passionate kiss to express her love and gratefulness for him in the only way she really knew how. Tamsyn pressed her body to his, holding him tight while she made out with him for several long, savoring moments until she finally broke away with a soft gasp, blinking her eyes open to look up at him again with a dazed grin. "Yes! Yes, of course I will!" she told him with another laugh to finally give him an official answer to his question before she kissed him again, sinking into him in a haze of love, desire, and passion all of which were sent into the stratosphere with the high she was floating on.

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Tamsyn Carpathius