A Gryphon Kind of Love: The Man Who Fell for a Gryphoness

Asteria and Mawgan have known one another for many years - not quite the classic "girl next door" but something in that ball park, after Mawgan moved to the remote mountain village, of course. The facilities aren't what he's used to but things are better with a friend and then, later, a sweetheart to keep him company. That's when she's not out hunting on the wing, of course.

Because Asteria is a gryphon - a gryphoness, in fact - and she has so many stories to tell, binding them together as her cheekiness brings a smile to his face even on the darkest and coldest of the winter nights. There is so much for the two of them to experience together but those three little words have not yet been said and, well, they have not yet experienced what it is to make love, least of all with each other.

Ah, but the time has come for that and, before a roaring fireplace, they sow the seeds of a deeper, sweeter relationship still...