[It's not that easy. Why does he think he can make it sound so easy? Just stop? Again, she is too slow to stop him from touching her, and has to slap his hand away far too late not to betray that... she didn't want to even be doing that. She wanted... She'd almost reached out to him so many times in the past weeks, not even just when she was in heat-
But they're practically in public. She's angry, she's confused, she's hurting still from so many things. This is her chance to turn and flee, to just go, she doesn't want to talk, because if they talk-
She remembers what Akua had said, when the other woman had come to visit her in her stall after the loss of the Oracle.
And when she turns from him... it's not to disappear into the outpost or down the road back to the cornerstone.
She heads into the forest. There is a clearing by a stream not far from there.]
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But they're practically in public. She's angry, she's confused, she's hurting still from so many things. This is her chance to turn and flee, to just go, she doesn't want to talk, because if they talk-
She remembers what Akua had said, when the other woman had come to visit her in her stall after the loss of the Oracle.
And when she turns from him... it's not to disappear into the outpost or down the road back to the cornerstone.
She heads into the forest. There is a clearing by a stream not far from there.]