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The vvoln liked to do that, to rip their prey up, leave them alive while they feasted. I didn’t know if it was malice or what. Maybe they liked the flavor of the meat when it was tinged with fear and pain.
I put an arm around her, which was supposed to be reassuring, but which was probably a bad idea. “So, new plan. We push on until we get to the ship, only stopping to eat ration bars and have water.”
She looked warily out into the darkness. “There could be vvoln out there, right now, keeping pace with us. They could kill us.”
“No way, shei. I won’t let anything happen to you.”
She nestled into me. “I don’t think you can promise that. I saw how fast it was. If it pounced on us from behind—”
“I’d hear it.”
She pressed her lips together.
I rubbed her shoulder, tightening my arm around her. “I won’t let anything happen to you.”
Inside my pelvis, my mating cock tried to lengthen and harden, but it ran into resistance. Ouch.
I grunted, letting go of her, reaching down to try to rearrange myself.
“What’s… is it happening?” she breathed.
“No, it’s fine,” I grunted. My cockwantedto come out. I tried to tuck it further away. Okay, that was just going to be uncomfortable. Fine. I could handle discomfort.
“Holston—”
“It’s fine,” I insisted. “We’re getting to the ship.”
We walked.
We walked for hihors.
We stopped to eat and drink, and then we got back on hooves and feet and walked some more.
My cock slowly worked itself out, and it was, uh, just hanging there, but it was soft, and I decided I didn’t need to say anything to Cypra about it, because it would only freak her out. It was freaking me out. I did my best not to look at her or touch her or smell her, because I didn’t know what happened if I did get aroused?
Did it go to my head? Did I lose control?
That couldn’t happen.
Not only because I didn’t want to hurt her or force her, but because if we were occupied like that, we were vulnerable to vvoln.
There was no sign yet that the vvoln pack of the one I’d killed by the campfire was coming for us, but there was nothing stopping them following our trail.
We could go out of our way to go through the river again, but that would cost us hihors of time, and I figure it made better sense to get to the ship and get to shelter.
We were close, probably about thirty hidosecs from the ship, when Cypra stopped walking suddenly.
“I can’t,” she said. “I need a break.”
“But we’re almost there,” I said. “It’s less than a hihor at this point. Less than ahalfa hihor. Come on.”
She was looking at my crotch.
I looked at it too. “Yeah, so that happened,” I muttered.
“It’s huge,” she said in a bland voice.
“Is it?” I didn’t dare touch it. “Let’s not talk about it, okay? I don’t want it to, uh, get…” It twitched. I turned away from her, shifting uncomfortably on my feet.
