For Nanook those enhanced senses were just a second nature to him at this point. Having them was completely normal even if he wasn't originally born with them as a human, and he couldn't have imagined life without them. That would have made him feel completely blind. Eventually, though, Marissa would have reached this point as well and she would have come to rely on them every bit as much as he had.<br/><br/>Like her, too, Nanook needed company, but only now had he come to realize the fact that he had needed company like this. He had been forced for so long to be a lone wolf. Hunters and slayers had come for those who he loved the most. Living the way he had for these past years was terrifyingly painful. Never once though did he admit that he was afraid. He never admitted that he was lonely. Now, though, the animal aspects of his mind were saying to himself that admissions of these emotions were acceptable. He had been looking for something for so long, and now he had found what it was.<br/><br/>Wolves must have operated on simpler emotions than humans did. This was certainly true to an extent. Ironically though his growth in this form had ultimately been more mature than his growth in his human state had. Soon enough his heart was quickening, and he was able to shove the rest of this out of his head. Her scent, of course, had driven him as much as his scent drove her. Swallowing deeply, he realized that her pounce and fleeing afterward was a challenge to him. That wasn't a challenge he was going to let slip by him either.<br/><br/>Stretching a bit for the time being, Nanook followed on all fours. If she didn't pick up her own pace, then she was going to get pounced on as well. Previously he was feeling a very strong lust for blood. Now, however, a different lupine emotion had replaced this in his mind. Her scent was starting to totally overcome every aspect of his thought processes. It was hard to think of much beside it. As a result, he figured that now was not the time to kill.<br/><br/>Rather it was increasingly looking like this was the perfect opportunity to make their relationship official. Nanook swallowed as he considered that fact. As a human he might have had reservations about that. Now he thought that it was just perfect. He was going to stay with her forever, and he had no qualm about that. His human side would have to deal with such things later.<br/><br/>Should she have not gotten too much further from him, Nanook would have leaped upwards and landed on her. Pouncing in this manner, he gave a few playful bites to her neck, hoping that she would have returned the gesture. That would have of course meant that her thinking was much in line with his own.