I could sense her long before she reached my lair. Fear. It was so thick I could taste it. She continued through the pouring rain.
The waiting was the hardest. I knew she might not reach me on her own. I would chase her if she didn’t.
She was *my* female.
It turned out my worries were for naught. Each step she took, she was closer to me.
I’d been alone for so long.
The humans had forgotten me. Like so many of my kind.
We were eternal.
And alone.
Shivering and crying. She stopped to try and compose herself.
When she finally saw me, I couldn’t imagine that my female would feel any better.
She would get used to me. In time.
My female would be mine and mine alone. There would only be the two of us in my lair. No one else to try and take her attention from me. I just needed to get her in my grasp.
I didn’t have to wait long.
She might not have fallen in if she wasn’t frightened out of her mind. Lucky for me, she was.