[Could she smell the fear from her friend? Yes. Li wasn't human and her senses were definitely better than a humans when it came to things she knew on instinct. Plus, the pulsing of marks told her quite a bit as well.

However, Li still didn't quite understand why Dove would be upset about it and regret spending the night with Styxx the same way she had. The downside of not being anything even remotely human...]

Why not? I mean... Sex, mating.. it's just something we do. It's instinct no matter what type of creature you are. And yeah, he was very good in bed.

[She shrugged a little.]

First being I've bedded in over a hundred and fifty years...or at least, the first one I've brought into my bed and not eaten.