saving myself from the ruin

She did not expect him to understand, for she didn't fully understand it herself. Her acceptance had been a surprise in itself, an odd agreement that didn't quite make sense to her -- so how could it to him? She bit her lip, watching him quietly and pulling her ears back against her skull. Submission. The last thing Laxago wanted was to upset him, to make him uncomfortable or angry with her but she had already accepted Jupiter's offer, and had to convince Deteste or else go back on her word. Her tail tucked between her hind limbs, his exclamation causing her to jump, a whine slipping from her jaws. She didn't speak again, not yet, waiting for him to mull it over, to consider what she had said though it seemed confusion that struck across his features, the next question that slid from his jaws causing her to sink, lowering to the earth in a gesture of her anxious tendencies. "I'm sorry," she whined, her haunches leaning lower to the ground than her chest, muscles quivering beneath the female's taut flesh. "I... I thought she was right -- that pups would help Amenti thrive. And she... she didn't trust anyone else, De. I said you could but- but you don't have to." The salmon flesh of the she-wolf's tongue ran nervously across her lips, hoping he would be mad -- or that if he was, it wouldn't ruin their relationship. She couldn't lose him, not now, not after everything else they had been through.