The acceptance of touch is a strange thing. Still, I do not think any other than Nari would be permitted - even Zeltzin brought about a certain...discomfort. But with Nari, it is easier to push such a feeling aside. I cannot help but greet her with the same mild touch; I lean into her, testing her resolve ever so slightly before I meet her eyes, ever on the hunt for the answers she conceals within them. She is both easy and difficult to read, intense but gentle.

"It seems you have been enjoying your stay in my den," I speak flatly at first, as if merely observing a fact - vaguely apathetic - yet a canine tooth emerges in a smirk of amusement. "You could make it more permanent." Whereas I desire to possess her, I seek also to be possessed after all; it would be unruly, unforgivable, to ever demand it of her. Mates, bonds, family. Strange words. Words I still do not entirely understand the meanings of but ah, to have. I know what it is, I think, to lose and so, I will do what I can to at least prevent that. I know the meaning of those words, at least. Perhaps it is time I finally begin defining the others for myself too.

In any case, I sit alongside her in silence for some moments as I simply watch the sky and listen to the flow of the ocean as it laps at the shores. There are many questions that rest on the tip of my tongue but for now, I begin with the most important of them all - will we possess one another? Until then, Arturio and all the others can remain after thoughts.