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"Because, dummy, ye got to watch where you put that thing..." she hisses back walking gingerly out of the cave to go relieve herself.

Ai sighs and shakes her head. "I like it when you do it right, dulcha... really I do, but yer aim has been off almost as often as it's been right on. Think about it, ok? And watch what yer doin."

She nods tersely and goes back inside, feeling awful at herself for telling him off. They were both so new at this, novices really. There was so much they needed to learn and something told her inside, so little time in which to learn it. Curling up at the back of the cave away from the sunlight, she tries to go to sleep.

She shudders, refusing to look him in the eye. "It does feel good, to a point, then it hurts like heck. I'd rather not hurt, mind you. You look tired."

Ai nuzzles him back sleepily. "Go to sleep, dulcha... We were both up late and I know I need my beauty sleep."

Ai chuckles softly to herself as she closes her eyes and lets his rhythmic rumbles lull her to dream land. It has never ceased to amaze her how quickly Kero fell asleep. Up one moment, down the next, but she was grateful for the interlude, even if being next to him was making her squirm inside. She needed some time to think and it was hard to do that when he kept doing all those delicious things to her body.

Ai nuzzles him back with a smile of wonderment. Where and when had he snared her spirit, binding her to him so tightly she found herself walking away from all she had evern known of love before. Not that it mattered. Bez's idea of love and Kero's were so opposed to one another it was like night to day. And Kero's love challenged her. Bez's had always drove her to distraction. She didn't claim to understand it. She loved them both. If she could find a way to meld the two into one, she would, but that was impossible. And since Kero's love was purer, more intense and at the surface, she had found herself opening to it in ways she had never done with Bez. She had loved Kero in silence for so long. Heck she had loved him even before taking on the raising of the cub. Just hadn't known how to express it to him without driving him away. It had been easier being his friend, than facing the thought of never seeing him again.

Ai drifts off to sleep thinking there is love and then there is love, but somehow she believes she finally understands the true meaning of the word. She knows this won't last. She wants it to, but it can't. And love now means to her, caring for someone so deeply you would do anything necessary for that person to be the best person that person can be, no matter the cost or what it will do to you in the end. But for now, she is willing to believe in the dream, her private secret romantic dream. Perhaps they would have a future together, perhaps not. Somehow that no longer matters. What matters is that they have the now.