Travellogue 188 / 0916 Dawn came to Nickolai with the crow of a cock outside their window.Travellogue 188 / 0916 Dawn came to Nickolai with the crow of a cock outside their window. As he shook the weariness from his eyes and groaned, he saw Furry wrapped up in a little ball and curled around a pillow. He stared at her for a few minutes, looking over every curve and bend of her body, enjoying the view. Not for the first time, the two thoughts of "God, she's beautiful," and "What am I doing with this creature?" collided in his brain, and the answer to the second was now as before "I don't really know." "But I'm in love," he spoke quietly, leaning over to kiss her on the muzzle. She did not stir, so he kissed her again on the shoulder. Then her hip. She moaned softly in her sleep. He finally decided waking her would be a bad idea if she was that deeply into a sleep cycle, so he crawled out of bed. 'Crawl' was a good word for it, he mused, since they had both apparently rolled towards the wall in their sleep, and he was now almost two meters from the edge of the bed. Once out, he dressed quickly and departed. "Good morning!" the Centaur named Tacha said brightly. "And how are you?" "Fine," he said, worried if his accent might give him away. He spoke almost perfect Quen, but his accent was most certainly Terran. "Good to hear," he replied. "Care for breakfast?" "What have you got?" "Scrambled eggs, mostly goose." He shrugged and said, "Sure." Tacha smiled and served up a plate of the runny yellow things, and he debated a moment before tasting them. He decided they were edible and downed most of the plate. As he was finishing the last of a glass of water the Centaur had set on the table, Furry, dressed only in his other shirt, came down the stairs, her arms extended in a full stretching yawn. |