Opal Reyne

She laughed more when her giggle echoed back through the crevice of his mouth as though she was answering herself from beyond the grave.

He paused, and her hands reached up to grab at the long fur around his chest, knowing this was the moment and bracing herself for pain.

Waiting. Waiting.

She giggled a little more, and it sounded loopier by the second.

A deep huff sounded right before his head started to back away.

He sniffed her. Sniffed her! Quick sniffs that brushed waves over her.

“What are you doing?” The sensation was tickling, and her nerves were so fried she wasn’t sure what else to say or do as she continued to clutch his fur.

“You taste of elderberries and roses. You smell of it.”

He buried the end his snout against her neck and drew his tongue over it, making her flinch when a shiver shot through her. “I was also curious about why I could taste elderberries and roses rather than blood. You are lucky I am not so hungry now after eating parts of those men, I may not have come to my senses before it was too late.”

“Aren’t you going to eat me anyway?”

He licked her neck again before sniffing against it.

“That depends solely upon you. Although I can make no promises, that is not actually my intention with you.”

His glowing orbs swiftly changed to purple at her smile,

Orpheus grabbed the trinket she’d made and stared at it with a swirl of emotion weighing heavily in his chest. He didn’t want to use it. He wanted to keep it as a token from her.

Her eyes were such a deep forestry green that he’d found himself starting to become lost in them, like a wandering traveller who’d lost their way, when she stared at him.

I want to lay my head in her lap.

“More. Give me more.”

“Sleep well, my little doe.”

“Reia?” he asked, yellow entering his vision as confusion swept through him.