Sleeping Dragon Trials by Fire

He smiles as she loosens her guard around him. His ears go forward intently when she speaks her native language of Greek. His mind swirls with ideas of what she might have said but ultimately fails at knowing what language she speaks in. 

He laughs but lowers his head slightly, “I’m sorry chica I couldn’t catch that. I tried but I cannot seem to place that one.”

Then she compliments him and if he wasn’t narcissistic before (which he was) he is now (even more). He preens and smiles again; yes, he loves attention. “You think so? I was thinking the same thing.” He purrs, mainly as a joke but partly serious talking about himself. Hell the man even loves the sound of his own voice. Then his ghostly eyes flick towards her. “One could say yours as well.” He flirts confidently.

Then she moves to block his path with her small self and it almost makes him chuckle but then he notes how serious she seems and he watches and listens intently to her. She says there’s not too many of them–okay but he would fight with them, he thinks. It’s hard for him not to fight with one who disrespects him when he’s in the wrong mood. Even if this petite, cute wolf had caught him on a bad day he would’ve killed her, and not to make it sound worse, he would’ve eaten her as well; such is nature.

He can see the spirit in her. A second chance? Hell, this is his...like thousandth chance. Every time he won a fight back then he considered it another chance at life. Then being released into this so called freedom seemed like whole different chance as well, one he’s still getting used to.

He lowered his head down to hers. “Tan dulce eres, pequeña lobo.” He says smoothly looking into her eyes. Then that signature ominous smirk returns. “I do not deserve a family.” He almost growls. “I don’t deserve freedom. I’ve done horrible things and I know I’ll have the misfortune of doing horrible thing in the future to come.”

He paces away from her with that same sadistic smile across his maw. “I appreciate the offer, beautiful. I cannot partake though. It would lead to things that are out of your control.”