You own me like whispers in poetry

He carefully laid out a scenario for her, one she hadn't even considered. Her new home was not an oasis with swaths of empty dunes surrounding a palace. Devoid of dangerous animals. This home was chock full of lions, tigers, and bears. Warring and roving bands of pack wolves, raiding each other for resources, stealing a wolf from their homes for slavery and membership.

Her eyes widened with understanding, she'd already faced a bear, a tiger, and a slaver. Though Stockholm syndrome seemed to have taken care of the last one.

She shakes her head, closing her eyes, frustrated with herself, "I can't believe how stupid I can be. Of course, I'm protecting her! If I can... How do you keep from freezing?" She opened her eyes and looked at the man of her dreams... well... she never had a man of her dreams before so he was now!

"Speech"