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Silence made the pulse of blood in her ears more strident, and Vesper found her eyes flickering desperately over her Aquila’s features like they might an opponent. She looked for a tell, something to predict what might happen, but it became increasingly hard to focus as the handful of seconds passed, especially as Myrika’s beautiful turquoise eyes beckoned to be watched instead. She waited for an answer as they flickered briefly over the proffered pendant, but then the tawny coyote stepped forward, and Ves obliged by holding her tightly and burying her face into her neck.
She’d never felt this. It seemed a waste of time to stop and analyze the feeling, so instead she simply felt, her fingers crooked into the other’s fur as she smothered herself with the other’s marshy, horsey scent. It took a minute for her to determine that her light-headedness wasn’t all emotion, and that she did sort of kind of need to breathe, but there was only a brief reprieve from suffocation before their noses touched.
Vesper responded to the noises in kind, letting a happy whimper carry weight words could not. She adjusted her grip on the pendant’s cord so it would not drop into the grass to be lost to the encroaching darkness, and then she reached up with her free hand to touch Myrika’s face, marveling at the tapering muzzle and the locks of dark sienna hair she could get her fingers around. She wondered briefly what her own face looked like, with its points of dark and light fur and its numerous scars, bumps and ridges along her snout and beside her eye, but she figured it didn’t matter.
There was more she wanted to say, such as to invite her to see the last of the falling lights in the sky and to prove to her that she was willing to change as far as the horses were concerned, but they were less than a prickle in her mind. She returned her muzzle to Myrika’s, and made sure on her part that it wasn’t the same shy kiss like the first they’d had.
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