Comply

Things took time, there was little doubt in that. But she'd learn to read him slowly over time, then again she wasn't terribly in a rush and as it was, she'd learn things here and there about him from just watching. Those ears flicked as he asked about her half-brother and smiled a bit. “I do believe Isardis was the first of our family to arrive in these lands and the one to set the roots for the empire he built.” That much, she believed to be true. “He was a mysterious man in his own right, but no different then the next wolf; he took what he wanted and fought tooth and nail for all he owned.” Which was quite a simplistic explanation of her half-brother, much less a brief description of what he was like, in some ways.

“And in the dark, I can hear your heart beat.”