Kevy Baby is Awesome

[3894]

Kevy was talking - like always - as they rode on to the stage stop for the night. For once, 3894 felt glad of Kevy's talk. Maybe it would take her mind off what she'd just seen. She'd heard the shock in the sharp intake of her breath, felt the way she'd lifted both hands to her face.

So Kevy was awesome. She hadn't known, at least not until he'd shown her, proved it to her, made her awesomely his.

After, they'd walked up the hill to the horses together. By way of distraction, Kevy had pointed out a lizard, the purple bells and white everlasting in the crevices of a rock.

A thought seemed to overcome him. "What do you know?" he'd demanded.

3894 had straightened her straw hat. She was disappearing into herself, she knew that much. Other women might rub their arms up and down, fighting off the shivers. Other women might break into soft sobs. Not 3894.

"Tell me," Kevy had urged, his stare drilling into her. Even now at the memory of it, white anger seared through her.

"You're awesome," she'd managed, looking him deep in the eyes, drinking in a full draught of his manly power. His eyes had darkened as he held her gaze and she'd struggled to hide her confusion. "Awesome, okay?!"