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After hours of walking over fallen limbs and huge branches, Lissa was very tired.
"Can we rest a while?" she asked.
"Yes, I will find us some supper." He told her.
She nodded and pet Cole. She gathered some wood for a fire and started it before Moon got back.
"I see you've been busy."
"I'm hungry," she told him.
"I have brought back two rabbits." He told her.
"Sounds good to me, rabbit is a clean light meat, and very tasty cooked on the spit." She told him.
"I could have gotten us a deer, but it takes too long to dress them out."
"Rabbit's fine."
"Did you have any trouble on the trail by yourself coming here?" He asked as he skinned the rabbits himself and watched her. His eyes strayed to her leg where the dress had splits up the side. He could hardly take his eyes from her.
"Actually no, just had to stay away from farms and ranches and out of towns mostly. I hadn't planned on stopping at the fort but then I figured they wouldn't have posters there."
"You were wise to stay there."
"I used everything you and Jack taught me though. I ate good, and didn't have much trouble, of course I dressed like a man too."
"Well, you no longer have to do that." He told her with a grin.
"I can live with being an Indian, I think. What do you think of my hair?"
"I like the red better, but it will do." He told her.
"But at least I'm a tan red-head and you don't have to worry about my skin color too much."
"That's true. Since we've traveled together, you skin has darkened from the sun a lot. You were pretty white when I first met you."
"I didn't get outside much. But I usually tan pretty well in the summer. Did you see any posters of me coming down here?"
"I didn't stop at many towns myself."
"Oh, well, I suppose dressed like this no one will suspect." She told him. "This dress is lovely."
"Yes, and it fits you perfectly."
"How did you do that?" she asked.
"It wasn't easy, but you are very little except… "
"Yes, I guess I am." She looked at him shyly.
"I'm not used to the slits on the sides of it, but I guess it has it's advantages, it's easier to sit with them."
"You look beautiful. Even when you were a man, you looked good."
"Well, I'm glad my husband approves." She told him.
"Husband, that is a new word I must get used to." He told her with a grin.
