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At last, it’s snowing.
A necessary amendment, slight change to the usual rhythm of the ever-changing seasons that flow by unnoticed, really.
It almost never snows this much here, blankets of white piling up by the minute.
Ei’s footsteps falter. "Miko," she halts and calls to her side.
Miko slows. Still, she observes Ei for a bit. "Yes?"
She needs no answer; for obvious the scene is, there’s one right in front of her: A rare, genuine joy gracing Ei’s face as she watches thick clouds drift across the waning sun.
Terrain adorned in white, it’s been a while.
"Look at all this snow!" She smiles up to the skies.
Miko joins in, "It does feel special," but she knows what could make the occasion even more so. "Want to see me jump into snow the way I used to entertain you?"
Ei instantly turns to face her. Ah, it’s natural Miko senses what’s to cross her mind. "Seeing those puffy heaps," she softens in her expression, "it did occur to me."
What wouldn’t Miko do for her. "In my tiniest form, I suppose?"
My weakness... Ei buries her enthusiasm better into her scarf, mumbling, "Not enough snow for the whole beast anyway."
Amused, Miko glances at her once more before shapeshifting.
"Woah!" Ei doesn’t quite recognise the exact moment her favourite pink chaos starts running around her legs, frisky and deft in her manoeuvres, almost knocking her off her feet. "Are you that excited too?" Happiness she can’t contain, and her laughter fills the air.
"To please you?" Miko’s ears perk towards the beloved sound. "Always."
Kitsune’s candour never misses.
"Miko…"
Miko just leaps into the whiteness again.
And again.
It’s almost melodic. Even. With Ei’s chuckling accompanying the smooth sequence.
One more time; and she pauses to shake all the snow off of her fluffs.
A warm, gentle touch is the very next thing she feels around her body as she’s picked up from the ground. Oh?
"Come into my arms now," Ei carefully runs one hand over the whitened fur, "it’s getting too cold."
Miko holds back a pathetic squeak; her tail, of course, is quick to betray her, wagging wild when Ei nuzzles her fluffy forehead.
"You know how much I love your warmth." Miko snuggles against Ei as it tingles through her, and her purrs deepen. "Yours."
Ei flushes and only brings Miko closer.
It does the final trick: To no surprise they end up falling back onto the snowed ground once Miko turns back into her human form atop Ei. Tails left visible—she can barely control herself; it’s no other season that can provide such special moments.
"It’s my heat days." Mixing business—entertaining her God—with pleasure as usual. "The wintry nuisance rules me, but with those hands on me so firm, I’m certain you are asking for, at least, a proper kiss."
"Why ruin the moment," a lie Ei sighs out, too smitten all the same.
She loves it. She loves the season. And she loves Miko, whatever her ways and needs be.
"I know you love it."
Heart soaring high, she’s even happier now with Miko’s lips fully onto hers.