Peace Offering

Her question was answered as Sirius suggested that they go back down the mountain, but he made no move to do so. He held her against him just as he had been this entire time. After a moment of stillness, Isa retracted her nose from the thick fur of his chest, tilting her muzzle upwards to peer at his face. "Are you sure?" He wanted to stay up here, she felt. "If you want privacy, I can make it back down the mountain alone." She came up here with him so that he wouldn't have to be alone, but his anger and anxiety had vanished and so she would be okay leaving him in this state.

Isa didn't pull away and wouldn't do so, lest she risk wasting the warmth that they'd created together. His words would choose the direction that their night took. Now that they'd already been this close, Isa would have no problems clinging to the dire brute through the night for the sake of warmth. With the furs that he had stored in the bags, she was sure that they would be fine. It was his choice, however.

"Isa"