breathing dreams like air
She has noticed him, of course. One did not live in Paradise without learning how to be hyperaware of one's surroundings. Here, there might not be a big cat or an angry monkey lingering in the treetops posing a threat, but there might be other dangers she was less familiar with.
And so, as her glance slides across and warms on the faces of other strangers that pass by, it does still trace across his handsome face before falling away. He is intriguing to her, but he does not approach and so she pretends not to notice. Pretends like he isn't consuming an ever larger portion of her thoughts.
His flirtatious opener has her blushing beneath her fur and she offers him a shy smile as her gaze ducks to him and then away.
"That's kind of you to say," she says as she meets his gaze again, drawing her neck up. It's not really in her nature to make a self-effacing comment, and so she does not, only tilts her head as she considers his question.
"A home, I suppose." She murmurs, although that is not what she is hoping for by half. But how does one tell a perfect (painfully pretty) stranger that she wants to find love? That she wants someone to regard her as tenderly as Annubis treated her mother? Someone who would look at her with adoration? Someone who wanted a family to raise together, someone who would not abandon her, someone who would cherish her and any (and all) children that they created.
She chuckles softly, her eyes darting downward and back up. Though she did not want to scare away the handsome silver-maned stallion, what use was there in not saying what she wanted? If he could not give her those things, then he was just a pretty face.
"To be more truthful, I am a little picky." She smiles again, swallowing the nervous bubble in her throat.
"I need someone who is loyal and kind. Someone who can be gentle and fierce in equal measure. Someone that will never abandon me, and who wants - someday - to have a family."
The latter point makes her whole body flush with embarrassment and hopefulness, though she does not drop her gaze from his entrancing green eyes.
"If you can tell me you are those things, Draco, I shall give you my name in return."