Falls

Excitement crackles over him like lightning in a stormy sky. Multifaceted ooids of green whirl as he watches the realization wash over her. Like rain upon the parched earth, her beautiful form awakens something inside him, a renewed hunger that had long since grown dormant and fragile. No longer was he haunted by her mere memory and struggling to remember the fine lines of color that formed upon her black and white skin. No longer did he have to fight through the fog of dreams to remember the color of her silver blue eyes or the way that they glittered when she stared at him. Melinoe was here and breathing with all the fire and hatred that he remembered her for.

His fiery starling.

Hatred burned now, as clear and precise as if the flames burned the dry grasses of the savanna in summer. Recognition widens her blue eyes and causes his own to glitter in satisfaction. He haunted her dreams like she haunted his own. She had not forgotten him. A cheshire smile slides easily into place as her dark ears disappear beneath the waterfall of silver white mane. He watches as her pink nostrils flare and tension builds beneath her black and white skin. And how deliciously perfect that skin looked. She shivers against the intensity of his gaze and dark ears perk forward, unable to resist the step closer that the wolf brings him. Defiance brims in the lilted tone of her voice as she demands to know why he is there. Why? How could she know how much he thought of her. How much he missed the shimmer of her mane as the rays of sunlight caught it.

His outstretched muzzle is greeted by the pinch of her blunt teeth as an angry squeal burst past her lips. Reflexes draw his extended appendage back but not quick enough. The beast roars as the sting of her bite but Rougaru forces a chuckle of amusement to silence the hiss that curls past his aching muzzle. Muscles twitch as he takes a step backward to coil his thick neck allowing him to rub the ache from his maw. Ears fall backwards beneath the thick tumble of his own cream and caramel colored tresses as he raises his broad head once more to fix her with a stern glare. ”Now that was not very polite was it?” he chastises with a roll of his shoulders, pausing to let his hungry gaze roam her delicately framed face. ”I suppose it is justified. I did claim you last time. I guess this means you wanted me just as much as I craved you then huh?” he teases, tilting his head to the side so that he might offer her an impish wink.