Silvertip Mountain [m]Snuggled up

Zaria was having trouble understanding, but luckily she didn't seem offended at his mess up of his words. He realised that he hadn't been the clearest and sought to remedy that. "You want beta, you have beta." he said, announcing it with the seniority that made it official. After their conversation he would announce it to the pack. With that out the way he hoped it would lose association with the rest of what he had to say.

"I want us to be more — more than friends but not mates." If he known the word or the concept he would have called it dating but he had never done this before. He had courted Raissa to a certain extent but that had been to win her over. As soon as she had joined the Caldera they had been mates, they had never really got to know each other before hand. Maybe that had been their downfall. They hadn't known the deep and darkest secrets or desires of the other.

"We say we will be connected to each other more than any other - like mates are - but if one of us feels it doesn't work then we stop. So, like a trial, to see if we like each other enough to be mates." It was what he wanted, though it seemed a bit like having the cake and eating it all too. Binding each other to one another without the title, the status or the children. Did Zaria even want children of her own? That was one of those things they had to figure out during this phase - if she wanted this.

FitzDutiful looked at her with a soft smile, the affection he felt deep within his eyes. He felt proud of her for reasons that he couldn't explain and though he wouldn't go so far as to say she would do no wrong, he felt like anything that came up they would face together and solve together. He awaited her answer, his nervous tension gone now that she had accepted the beta status.