Stahl wasn't sure what she had done in her life to deserve her current situation, but she was either extremely grateful, or begging for repentance, either of which relied solely upon the decision she had not yet reached on whether this was bliss, or torture.
The night had started out amazingly. The she-wolf had confessed the feelings she had been afraid to, and Aster had accepted them, no, returned them even! If that wasn't enough, she even got to hold the human as he drifted off to sleep against her own body. The freezing circumstances may have been the real reason that bonus was added, but the canine greedily accepted the added spoil.
