Well, fortunately, the fact that her life's circumstances would have prevented her from ever trusting anyone blindly actually was going to be helpful for Nanook. It meant that he didn't have to worry about things that other people needed to worry about. Well, scratch that, it wasn't quite what he was thinking. No, he figured that he wasn't going to have to worry about the blind faith that other werewolf alphas sometimes had to concern themselves with.<br/><br/>Looking up a bit, Nanook figured that even if she seemed weak-willed, she wasn't. Indeed, he was going to make sure that she continued to grow in terms of faith. Not only faith in him, but in herself. She could be taught to believe in herself. That was going to be of the utmost importance to him. He wanted her to be exceptionally confident. No, Nanook didn't want to turn her into him. What Nanook had wanted was to make her a strong compliment to him.<br/><br/>While he had wanted her to grow physically as well as mentally, what he had also wanted was to make sure that she would have remained true to herself. That would have been the icing on the cake in so many ways. Never did he once want to mold her into something that she wasn't. Rather, he had always wanted to just build on what was already there to make her into a powerful form of herself.<br/><br/>"Hey, well, I can wag my tail when you do that, wanna see?" Nanook started to pant when she was scratching his neck like that. Fortunately she was turning part of the conversation around into something that was lighter than before. Turning about a bit, he tried to just shake his backend like there was a tail there. It wasn't really convincing, but it was funnier than most of his jokes really.<br/><br/>In spite of the fact that one of the questions she had asked him probably carried with it no answer, Nanook eventually did feel the need to reply. He swallowed deeply, wondering if she had not wanted him to do so. That would have made sense. Perhaps he was even overstepping his bounds by doing so.<br/><br/>"Some people are such creatures of habit that they would have stuck to a life that would have been bad for them. Isn't that sad?" Nanook frowned a bit and soon shook his head. He didn't like the idea at all. "Then again, I should have known from the get-go that you were stronger than that. You were more powerful than that. I like you more than that."<br/><br/>Should she have allowed him to do so, Nanook would have leaned in, snuggling close against her. He figured that at this point any sort of physicality wouldn't have concerned her, though he also had thought that he wasn't going to go too far. For obvious reasons, considering their immortality, he didn't want to breach too many lines just yet. It would have been a commitment of course to live eternally with one another.<br/><br/>Nothing inside of him was at all afraid of commitment, but then again he didn't want to jump into anything yet either. Nevertheless, he was more than happy to just stroke her hair for the time being anyway. "When you said that we could go somewhere else, do you mean away for a while? I really do think that I would like that. Maybe we could go rent a room for a few days or something, or how about a little trailer north of LA or something? Frankly, I'd love to get away from the smog just long enough for a bit to make good on a few promises to you."<br/><br/>More than anything, Nanook had wanted her to commune with nature at this point. He didn't want her to have to live in this stinking urban environment forever. "Tell me, what sorts of games do you like to play? I like chess myself, it's...predatory." The way that he had spoken those words even, they sort of sounded like they could have been somewhat seductive if she had elected to take them that way. That would have made some sense considering the word choice there anyway.<br/><br/>Shaking his head for a moment, it almost looked like he was a dog trying to get fur out of his eyes. Maybe she was going to pick up on more of these traits shortly. He really didn't know how long it would take. Either way, though, he knew for one thing that he would have thought that she was cute with it.