<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">“You really picked out a nice place to stay,”</span></span><br/><br/>Indeed it was a good place, Winter could feel the glowing magical gemstones saturating him with energy. Strangely he felt the same if not more powerful magical energy radiating from Cara! The glowing white crystal's never had been so bright before! Cara's mere presence seemed to be  making them shine even brighter!  He wanted to go to her! to be close to her! To feel her skin on his!  But he couldn't as he was struggling with other more powerful stronger urges and desires!<br/><br/>He however only knew how to mate with female dragons... they flew around chasing one another, usually in a blizzard or heavy cloud cover so no to be a public spectiacle while Flying, higher and higher up into the upper stratosphere until finally embracing another and went plummeting back down to earth... much like eagles... only a little more violent and dramatic. They usually were smarter however, as they mated over large bodies of water and didn't have to worry about not finishing in time before they hit the ground! IF they didn't... they continued intwined with one another down into the depths!<br/><br/>Yes Winter was obviously confused, he didn't understand his human body or her own... or even the ritual. In his human form he felt practically like a shy blushing virgin!<br/><br/>Winter took in a  deep breath and turned and ducked under the warm water and swam through a small narrow smooth underwater passage , that glowed with smaller crystals along the side.<br/><br/>Twenty seconds later he resurfaced into another cavern.... the pool was much more narrower. He glanced down wondering if Cara was going to follow... if she did, he really would be in trouble as their would hardly be any space for them both to stand up in.  He quickly glanced around hoping find some way to get away, but he found himself trapped up against a smooth limestone wall. It was much easier to climb as dragon to get up not that nice little secluded ledge. Desperate to get away he darted forward and scrawled up the much shorter edge and hurried to hide in large nest. He had biult it from the branches of  green fir trees... unlike most pine trees, the needles of the fir tree, were very soft and pleasant to the touch.  Although he had built the nest years ago, the magical glowing gemstones in the cavern kept it green and fresh! It still smelled like just a nice as the day he had ripped them from the tree and dragged them inside the cave.<br/><br/>The walls of the nest where quite high, so that his human body could quite easily be concealed behind it... IF Cara did come looking for him, she would likely not see him at first...... but the wet foot prints of the smooth stone leading up to the nest might've been a clue.  This cave was considerably at lot small than the other, and there wasn't any other place he could have gotten to...<br/><br/><br/>IF she didn't pursue him, he would likely spend the night there... and shift back into his true form in the morning as he was quite confident that being in the cave... especially with her magical aura charging the magical crystals, he would be able to shift in the morning. Winter was quite certain he would know what to do with the mysterious woman then.<br/><br/>Winter peeked over the nest, watching to see if she had followed and quickly duck back down again... was that a splash her heard? ,,, or was that just a water dripping down from the stalactites, into the hot water springs below.