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I still wasn’t completely comfortable with the idea, but armed with the knowledge that the tree would catch us if we fell, I supposed it wasn’t so bad.
I lowered my eyes and watched my feet.
Each time I did, Dyrel said, “Eyes on me at all times.”
Yes, sir.
He counted out the steps of the dance, much slower than the teacher did. We performed the first few steps and came to the part I always forgot. I reached out with my foot along the branch and found nothing but empty air.
“There’s no branch there,” Dyrel said. “So, what do we have to do now?”
I put my foot back on the branch. I reached out with my other foot and found a section that was there.
He smiled, nodded, and continued to count. We moved along the branch, with him counting out the steps.
A thick pompom of leaves swung straight for my head. Without even thinking, I ducked.
He swung me around, onto another branch.
I did it! I did it!
In all my hours practicing with the dance teacher, I’d never managed to complete a cycle before.
But the dance was still going.
We danced, my body pressed against his. He was in control, the way Titan culture dictated.
I bent and moved, fitting around nature.
I threw my head back and burst into laughter.
Dyrel counted faster. We finished one step before the next came hot on its heels. I followed him as he led me around the tree. We moved so fast, so quickly, the movements came without me even needing to think. I didn’t check my footing or attempt to avoid missing the branches beneath my feet.
And then, finally, he came to a stop.
“Excellent work,” he said.
“You think so?” I said.
“I know so.”
The dance was done but his arms remained wrapped around me, one in the small of my back, the other above my hip, just managing to graze my ass.
I looked up at him and smiled. I felt the hard throb in his pants.
I felt myself loosen, turning wet and ready for him.
We stared at each other, knowing what was supposed to come next, but we were both a little nervous.
Was he afraid I would turn him down and decline his affections?
Or maybe he wasn’t that into me? Did he just think of us as a working relationship the way we were supposed to be?
No, not with that hunger in his eyes and the persistent jabbing in my leg.
I was three hundred feet in a tree, in the middle of nowhere, on a planet no one on Earth knew existed, in the arms of the most gorgeous creatures I had ever seen.
The moment came, and then it passed. We parted.
