Heavens not made enough

Normally she would have recoiled and taken a step back if anyone approached her too closely, invading her personal space. This didn't apply to her alpha, of course. They could be as close as they wanted to, as intimate as they wanted to. She liked it when they were together, no, more than that. His little, playful touches made her heart flutter, and she found herself drawn to him like a magnet. Not until was he wrapped around her, pressing into her form did she feel a sense of fulfilment, completion, like the flame in her heart had been rekindled.

He utters a word unfamiliar to her ears; had she misheard? It sounded almost like ashiteru, though surely that wasn't a new word. She was trying to be a bit more intelligent, for a stupid queen didn't deserve to be a queen at all. But ashiteru? Really? That couldn't be a whole word. Perhaps he had meant separate words. Alright; what could it be? And...she...told...you? That didn't make sense! No, this was hopeless. Maybe it didn't matter. Clearing her mind of the "ashiteru" or "and-she-told-you" or whatever it was, she tuned back to his words, ones that she understood crisp and clearly. He mentioned his plans of adjusting the ranks and giving their pack-mates a little motivation. A smile touched her lips. "Whatever you'd like to do with Myriad, I'll be okay with." That didn't mean she was blindly following him without a mind of her own, but supportive of his opinions and trusting that he made the right decisions.

Then he added an explanation to his earlier ashiteru, stating that it meant "I love you" in Japanese. Ohhh! The realisation hit her, and the understanding was evident in her lit features. She hadn't misheard! It was an actual word - or sentence, actually, but not in her native tongue. "Well then, ashiteru too," she chirped with a broad grin, her green-tipped tail wagging. The thought soon occurred to her that she didn't know any other language, unlike him. Was she jealous? Well, only a little. It wasn't her fault she hadn't been exposed to any other tongue as a pup, nor did she know other ways of communicating existed. "Say, could you maybe teach me it, sometime?" she asked hesitantly, batting her eyelashes shyly.