11-19-2019, 10:15 AM
----------------kiss me until i can't speak
The shyness in her familiar eyes is new, and Pteron teases her for it with a nibble of his dull teeth across her jawline. Wander has never admitted to affection beyond that of the best of childhood friends, but Pteron has never needed admissions to press his charm. He is gracious about rejection – Aodhan can speak to that – but it is a rare thing. Flirtation brightens even the dullest of interactions, and Wander is far from dull.
So much to catch up on, she says, and Pteron buries his nose in the dusty black tangle of her mane, inhaling the scents of places that he has never seen. Even he pulls away, her enthusiasm is radiant, warming bits of him that he had not even known were cold.
“I thought you might not come back,” he admits, and his grin is rueful. She had been his first friend; most of his memories of the Pampas have an apricot blur on one edge; Wander, a constant presence. Leaving the Pampas had meant leaving her, and he has often regretted that he had not come back sooner to find her. When he had, it was only to learn that she was gone, away on adventures that they had sworn to have together. He does not envy her them – if anything, they add to his excitement at seeing her again – and when she asks if he has time to catch up on them, he does not hesitate to say:
“I will always make time for you,” with a fond smile.
He wants to kiss her again, and so he does, a press of his blue muzzle to her creamy cheek. It feels right, as does telling her at least some of what he has done in her absence.
“I live in Taiga now,” he begins, “Mother is thinking of making me her heir.” ‘Thinking of it’, she has said, though Pteron had asked for something with less weight and more combat, perhaps the title of Protector. There is no changing her mind though, Pteron knows; there is only waiting and hoping she changes it herself.
“Where have you adventures taken you?” Pteron asks, “Have you been outside Beqanna this whole time? I went to look for you in the Pampas, but Noah said you’d gone.”
@[Wander]
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