All In All It's Just Another Brick In the Wall

The banter that the red wolves share is easy and light and her question about if curse words are forbidden is met with a moment of confusion from Ruga. Keahi manages to keep a serious face, even getting her brows to furrow slightly to keep the charade up. The tall Master of Arms sees the amusement hidden in her expression and his answer is met with hearty laugh from the tropical wolf as she says, “Who ever said I was a lady? Besides, I hear women have more fun anyway.” Blue eyes dance with joy as she tilts her head to the side, a playful smiling dancing along her red lips. Ah, but it is her turn to share something. At first the red woman is stumped, searching for some odd fact the man might finding interesting. The one fact that she absolutely does not want to share keeps tickling the back or her mind, forcing her thoughts to come back to it again and again.

Ruga is silent as they continue to work and when their paws touch, Keahi can’t help but blurt out the most painful truth in her life. The soft call of name has the tropical wolf shaking her head and she turns away to grab more mortar while working to order her racing thoughts. They work, she talks and, in the end, the happiness and light-heartedness that had filled the area mere minutes before disappears. They lay the row of stones in silence, the tropical wolf silently trying to rebuild the wall she had kept around her heart in the hopes of keeping herself from getting too attached to anyone. Is Ruga disappointed in her? Is he disgusted? She cannot look at him, afraid of what she might find in those sea-foam depths. He carefully lays the last brick of the row and, as she moves to gather her tool to lay more mortar, a large paw comes to rest over her own.

Confused, Keahi turns her ocean blues up to the man’s soft sea foam greens and red brows furrow as she begins to brush off the suggestion of a break. But the fact that his muzzle is inches from her own has the tropical wolf’s words dying on her tongue as she breathes in his scent. The small grin that Ruga has forces her own lips to twitch up at the corners and, as he gives her paw a gentle squeeze, something stirs in her belly. As he lifts her paw to his lips and gives her russet toes a soft kiss, a light chuckle bubbles out of her mouth. Gazes meet and Keahi sees the interest and intrigue in Ruga’s eyes and she gives a small laugh at the words that rumble out of his mouth followed a chuckle. He releases her paw and nods for her to follow and the red woman does not ruin the moment with words, instead allowing her dirt caked pads to lightly follow after the Master of Arms.

Once in his den, Ruga picks up a water skin and takes a long pull from it before passing it off to Keahi. The tropical wolf gratefully drinks the cool liquid, watching as the taller male moves to sit on a wide fur that is spread across the floor in front of a mound of furs that must be his bed. She lowers the water skin from her red lips, watching as he quietly offers up words of apology. Dipping her head is silent thanks, Ruga then offers to help her forget about everything for a while. Blue eyes fall to the water skin that is in her paws and Keahi muses to herself for a moment. There is no denying the attraction she feels to the handsome blacksmith but she also doesn’t want to be his pity fuck, only bedded because he feels bad for her and he might eventually grow to regret. Well… there is only one way to remedy that.

Looking at Ruga, she says, “I wouldn’t mind forgetting things for a long time. But… just remember… we do have a wall to finish building.” A spark of mirth is back in her bright blue eyes as she lays the water skin aside and moves over to where the tall wolf sits. Keahi stands and places both of paws on either side his face to pull him down to her level and she plants a passionate kiss on his lips while her tongue darts out to lick at his mouth. He smells of sweat, earth, and leather and the red woman feels the stirring in her belly once more. When they break the kiss, she climbs atop the mound of furs and waits for him to join her.


"Keahi Mogotsi"