i don't want to live a lie

So we were both bitten by the same bug, huh? he sighed, after learning that it was not just his brain the one playing tricks on him lately -- maybe it was something all wolves went through. Like a initiation ritual for maturity; a type of puberty but for adults.

Either way, the greyscale man's words worked on the boy; who was more of a man now. For once in his lifetime he didn't let the man's speech go through one ear and out the other. Man this growing up deal was strange.

After Dante was done speaking, Finn raised his eyes to meet his briefly, an unspoken thank you written across his pupil; then twisting his lips into a small gentle smile, the man reached out his nose to nugde his superior/ and now friend's shoulder.

Thanks man, he barked with a gentle nod of his head. Though he knew he could not keep up his macho act up forever, it was hard to embrace the needy guy that lied underneath it all.
As long as it didn't drive away those he loved, it was worth the shot.

Do you wanna race back? he offered with a wag of his tail that shook off the storm cloud away from his head. Wrapping his head about a single issue was not something Finn liked.