Stirring the Embers of Desire

Bane gave a slow blink from his remaining eye and a final swipe of his tongue along the back of Tahlia's copper flavored neck. A panting smile managed to find it's way onto Bane's muzzle when his mate rubbed her head underneath his chin as they stood side by side. Once more. Once more they could love each other before a separation of a most distasteful natural would keep the two wolves apart. Bane could not love Tahlia everyday as he should. Nor provide for her, nor care for her wants and desires. The banished let out a wistful keen in a dreary limbo as she licked his throat. Tahlia had spoken, and rather than move immediately to satisfy himself Bane simply drew back to stare into her golden eyes with pent up affection. "Now... and for eternity... I will love you my mate." The wolf spoke somberly.

Paws came to wrap around her sides, Bane giving a firm bite to the scruff of her neck and pulling to relax her as the aged wolf then eased his mate onto her back. With how the pair had joined the few times like this it was always slightly uncomfortable, at least for him, being muzzle to muzzle. But the strong intimacy brought by their current position was enough to ignore any discomfort, Bane not caring with how often they were seeing one another. To be able to lick her muzzle and give a panting, breathless smile; a long trailing series of licks down her throat with a nip on an ear. The feeling of Tahlia's exerted breathing and quiet moans against his neck while brushing her closely tucked paws against the pale fur of his chest as they bonded between themselves in their own little corner of paradise. Paradise that only came to their surroundings with the complete and passionate union of the pair that was Tahlia and Bane. Tahlia, the upstanding and proud she-wolf he'd asked to be his own. And Bane, the carefree, as-the-wind-blows rogue.

The twice-banished lay on his side and simply stared at Tahlia when they were all untangled and breathlessly content just lying next to the river. A slow blink was given by Bane's remaining eye. Jaws grabbed ahold of her neck scruff and kneaded the bloody fur of her neck fur to sooth his mate. A paw reached over her side to tuck her in close against him, a quiet rumble leaving his parted muzzle as he surveyed their surroundings before settling his chin on Tahlia's shoulder. A peaceful sigh escaping his muzzle as he closed his eye in contentment.