He winked, then laughed. I’m bad at this. Aventuras felt her smile widen and she was somehow both more nervous and more at ease than she could ever remember being. It was almost overwhelming, but in the most wonderfully interesting types of ways. Like a dream. If she couldn’t feel every inch of her skin brushed by the fall breeze, and his warmth as they drifted closer, she might’ve thought it was one. Like maybe she’d stir awake and find herself tucked nose-to-tail with her sisters or her mother.
He introduced himself as Arroyo, which was a name that she already knew suited her tongue before she’d even speak it for herself. Then he asked if she wanted to dance.
Aventuras dipped her head with a small laugh. “Arroyo,” she repeated his name like he’d said hers and found that, just as she’d hoped, it rolled smoothly from her tongue. She had met other stallions outside her blood (though only very few), but they had never made her feel the way Arroyo was making her feel. “I would love to.” She admitted.
Then, after just a beat her eyes met his and she further confessed, “I’m not very good at this either.” It was said in somewhat of a confidential whisper. She wasn’t afraid to show her flaws and stumble through them with him if he did the same.
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