Unsure Feelings

"I'm aware we are mated to master... That won't ever change..."

Her words began to trail off, not expect this kind of response. Her eyes shifted away toward the ground. It wasn't lust that she felt, she was inclined to share how she feels. She adored him in every way and perhaps loved him from the weeks together. She shakes her head, she was at least hoping to be understood on the manner.

"I just... You're so..."

She eventually fell silent. The single stripe weakling of a lamb couldn't speak out the why or how of what it was that ambushed her chest. Only until something inside of slipping away as if it's on her finger tips. One that seemed to rub off on her from their human mate from another world.

"When I'm around you, I just feel more at home than what I already am! How could I explain it and put it... I am loyal to my mate, same as you, but something in my chest speaks out and yearn to stay by your side... Of course we protect our mate down to our children... I just..."

Riku had grown a very human trait being thrown into this tribe. Their mark was placed on a female to protect, but is that the same as loving them?