Sleeping Dragon Trials by Fire

Her eager smile fades a bit. "I am from a land far away known as greece. Some of the workers where I come from spoke that language....Spanish? I think? And so I thought..." She fades, eyes fixed forward for a second with memory. 
He calls her beautiful and she brightens again, preening and posing. She was proud of her looks, though after walking through the volcano she would need a bath. He levels his head to hers and his next words bring back that fiery intensity to her gaze again. "Don't speak like that! I don't care who you are, or what you've done! And anyone else who does is a selfish fool! Everyone deserves peace, love, a family. And if you don't know how to have those things, then well...you asked me to teach you, didn't you?"  
She softens again, looking up into his eyes, trusting and warm. "Just because you were a monster, doesn't mean that's all you can ever be. And you can only truely be a monster if you did whatever you did willingly- with no one forcing you, with no training or abuse, with no fear of the consequences should you refuse."  She takes a step forward, this time it is her initiating contact. Her brow meets his shoulder and she stays there for a moment, still and quiet. "A wolf can't survive long alone. Not in body or in mind. And certainly not in spirit."