Coming back around again

The pause that followed her words wasn't unexpected, but she was glad that he didn't pull away. The feeling of his paws snuggly around her felt a bit like a lifeline, one that she was very happy to be tethered to. As his eyes searched hers, hers did the same. She already knew that the honesty and the care that he had shown her was true through to his core and as he held her and questioned her to make sure that this was what she wanted that was what she saw in the clear pools of his eyes. It was hard to hide the nervousness that she felt simply from the unknown of what she was about to experience, but the more she looked into Mercury's eyes the more at ease she felt and she knew that's what he would find in her own eyes. A sureness and a need that went far deeper than just a surface level desire. Whatever deep, repressed memories she had from those sinister amber eyes she wanted them to be washed away by the soothing blue of his.

"I'm sure," she replied quietly with a little smile, one of her paws trailing from the back of his neck to cup his cheek. "There's no one I would trust more." There was no truer words she could have possibly spoken and with that promise she sealed it with another kiss. She was immediately sent adrift with a quiet whine and both of her front paws found their way back around his neck so that she could hold onto the thicker fur of his scruff to steady herself. Anything beyond the walls of this cave and her friend turned lover no longer existed. She more than willingly handed over everything to Mercury, knowing that she could trust him to keep her safe.

"Anthea Dásos"