crushing

He promised her every answer she desired about himself. She raised a brow at that. She didn’t know if she would describe him as an ‘open book’ After all, he hadn’t wanted to give away his secrets to his family. Perhaps he would only be readable to her. The thought sent a rush of warmth through her.
‘Risen Empire’ she felt like she might have heard the name in passing, but she hadn’t really been paying attention to politics. Without a home-base pack, it didn’t seem terribly important to learn, she had no allies nor enemies to study.

He expanded on how he was a tinkerer, and she saw potential for team work there. The sort of thing where couples might work on something together, to expand both their knowledge and resources. ‘Couples?’ Sheesh, she was as bad as he was at jumping the gun.

The first part came easy, the next brought hesitation and she wondered why. He had four siblings, and a twin, he had intended to be heir - she had gotten that when she was trying to sort out his inner issues. His god was ‘Abraxas’ and they took that as their last name. That was interesting, and she knew if she allowed herself to end up with him, then that ‘god’ was going to be something she would have to study.

He shook his head, laughing at himself, and she grinned back at him. He was actually rather adorable, and there was a sheepishness in the pools of his gaze when he laughed. Or perhaps she was just imagining it. Regardless, she liked it. He was likeable. She laughed with him, shaking her head, and reaching back over to the towering boy and putting her paw back over his again. She liked it there, it was ridiculous and tiny, but it fit into the grooves where his toes began. Black-on black, as through they were the same, despite the vast differences between them.
“Alright, sprouting facts about yourself isn’t really that easy. Let’s look at it this way, there's something here. You want.. Something, and i’m willing to find out. Where do we go from here? You're a pack wolf, are you going to want me to join… Aerie, you called it?” He had called it the Risen Empire when he spoke of himself as leader. She supposed his brother must have changed the name when he took over. She wasn’t opposed to joining a pack, though she was a little weary, too. She had joined two packs now, and both of them had seemed to fall apart on her.