Johanna didn't mind. She liked how Amos smelled. She hadn't been around people in general for awhile, so anything that reminded her of being human was nice. Sweat, tears, blood. It was all natural. We came into this world that way, didn't we?
"I won't fall asleep. I'm wide awake, baby." Johanna squirmed when he poked her, but it was a happy little movement, a puppy wiggle. She continued to scrape her fingernails over his scalp. She had short hair too and understood keeping his that way. Less to wash, nothing for anyone to grab onto in a fight. She was shaved bald at the Capitol to make it more painful and easy to electrocute her. Growing it out never happened after that.
The growl was kind of pleasing to her. She usually preferred girls-- Amos was so manly. But in the right ways. He wasn't a fucking asshole like most men were. "Yeah, me too. We were poor and I was working up in the fuckin' trees instead of in school. My brothers too."