Secret Adventure

Rudy’s puff-tail is wagging as much as it had before all the bad stuff had happened.  The bad stuff that had engulfed him was now nothing more than a mouse stashed away in a hole amidst a huge open field made of content and joy.  She quit holding him but kept her body leaning into his side.  

Time passes and Rudy sits there with her and Fern’s head finds its way to his shoulder.  Rudy lets out a low contented sigh.  The wolf that seemed hard to keep still and quiet for long is perfectly at peace and content to let his mind quit scheming or planning, his mouth was silent and it was enough just to feel Fern’s weight pressed against him, the faint drumming of the water and the brilliant view of the water as it sprayed into the pool.  

Fern thanked him for the view and Rudy grinned broadly.  His plan had worked.  Even better than being right was that he’d made Fern happy.  She kisses him, Rudy returns the kiss.  Rudy felt an unusual urge wanting to do more than that but then Fern separated and asked what all he had planned.  Rudy snapped his mind away from another urge and back to what Fern had brought up and cycled back through the plans he’d come up with.

“Well, I didn’t want to take away from your training,” Rudy drawled out, “So, we could spar or hunt or do both.  Plenty of game here and a pretty nice view to fight around. I want to keep to what I promised you, Fern.  I promised adventure, I promised to teach you to hunt and fight.  So you tell me, what do you want most right now?  What I want to do right now is make sure you are as happy as you can be.  I love you, Fern.”

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