Surrender up my heart, and swap it for yours.

If they were going to be an official couple, Paarthurnax wanted to enter the next stage of their relationship with no barriers between them. She wanted to devote herself to the real Shadow, the one she'd allowed to court her, the one who'd made love with her, the one who tested her with absolute, unwavering love. Would his new change things? Would they make him different? Was he hiding a real personality beneath the façade of kind and gentle giant?

She wanted to love him. She'd been trying so hard to learn how, but it was times like this that she wondered if she really could. Paarthurnax reminded herself that her own parents had not paired out of love, but had learned to share the feeling mutually. There was still time for her and Shadow. Their bond was young, but strong. And although this change troubled Paarthurnax, she was willing to move on from it.

"No more secrets," the bi-coloured medic smiled wider, dipping her crown to close the remainder of the distance between them, keen to cast the tension aside in favour of resuming their celebration of the pack's birth. She crooned softly, pressing her forehead affectionately to her partner's throat.