05-15-2017, 04:15 PM
tangerine
face to the sun
Tang shines under his attention - feeling more like a Mare than she ever has before. They walk together and she savors his closeness and the tingling feelings she gets when they accidentally touch. Shoulder bump, sides together, tail flicks. She has never accidentally touched anyone else quite so much. Generously, he offers to accompany her home or let her overnight in his home. But she is growing unexplainably restless. The temperature is dropping along with the sun, and a foreign nervousness in her belly tells her she should be going. She could travel threw the night, her soft coat and movement would keep her warm, along with the thoughts of their next meeting. She declines his offer, none the less appreciative of it.
"Spring may be my new favorite season" he tosses the words playfully to her. She now has a new set of reasons to anticipate her move to The Lake. A territory of all young folk will have benefits she naïvely had not thought about until now. But of course it would be all she thought about during her return journey.
"I think it will be" her hips bump into his.
She hoped he would be thinking about her for the rest of winter. Impulse prompts her...
Tang pushes her muzzle to the corner of his his mouth, her lips tasting his for a single breath before pulling away with an untamable grin. "Until spring" she gives a slight bow of her gold neck, in a movement which echoes the one he had greeted her with not so long ago. An impish formality. Lifting her front she wheels on her haunches to scale the rocky hillside. In the direction of Tephra.
She wonders if he can see her heart pounding her rib cage.