A conversation

You talk to Hwin and get to know her. Normally this would happen before you fucked. In normal Centaur society, a young colt without a herd would find fillies in a herd that were of breeding age (around 18 as there humanoid half needed more time to mature than the equine half) and hunt with them talking to them as they brought their hunt back to the herd. He would stay hidden from the heard and if the leader saw him he would be chased off or even killed. However, since the young males helped with the hunting in the time just before the breeding season when hunting was put aside for other things, their presence would be tolerated as long as they stayed out of sight and only persued fillies. Overconfident colts or young stallions with small herds may come to steal mares or challenge for leadership and they would be the main concern of lead stallion. Before the start of the season, the colts would reveal themselves, along with the stallion. Those who had been wooed would have moved their mother's yurts to the edge of the heard. The colt would revel himself and call to the fillies (and any mares in the case of young stallions). Those who wanted to go with him would have their bags ready and leave their mothers yurt behind to form a new herd. The Colt would then mate with them and together they would build yurts as a final bond. It was hard to outrun an angry stallion trying to keep you if you had a yurt to pull. This would stop most mares from leaving even if they found the younger stallion alluring. Making it a much better sign of unity than the rings that humans used that could be easily slipped off or carried with you. If you built a yurt with a stallion it proved you were willing to stay with them. It was a very uncommon sight to see a mare leave her yurt, her home, behind to join a stallion or a colt and was often a sign of mistreatment, weakness or poor leadership and the rest of the herd would see it as an ill omen.

You would still be considered a colt until next breeding season. Winter was coming and if you survived you would have a biological urge to try and win some centaur mares. However, you do not know of any in the area. The closest was your farther Ravas who would kill any colt he even heard rumours were in the area.

You told this to Hwin and she told you about her life. She was the youngest daughter of a miller. Her father ran a water mill that provided flour for the Lord to distribute to the people. He was one of 4 and processed all the grain that came from the easterly side of the Lord's land. She was very proud that some of her farther's flour even made it to the king as part of the Lord's tribute to the king. Running the mill was left to her farther and her brothers but the water wheel did most of the work. She and her sisters helped her mother bake some of the excess flour into bred for the family to eat and to sell at the market. Being the youngest she was likely to inherit nothing and end up marrying someone she did not know for the benefit of the family. So she had decided to become a knight, to fight and keep her country safe, to save people and earn her own way in life, maybe even gain a husband she loved or even a wife. Not all knights went after princesses most just earned money and either died defending the kingdom or did something that earned them land to live off from their king.

Before this plan could come into action she was snatched by the manticore. Now she wanted to stay with you. You could be knights together not to mention lovers.