Questioning another mentor’s methods could be looked upon as a high taboo, but with some confidence, the she-wolf felt she wasn’t committing an insult to her mate. He knew her well enough that it was not in her nature to usher insult on another at least intentionally. The curious mind was what has set her apart from the Nomads and encouraged her seek to understand all she could. This was but another, crucial instance of this. To have a look into the mind of the man she held dear and understand what drove his methods.
As he explained his training, X’yrin had no qualm in listening. There was no mentor’s pride that kept her ears muted to his difference in style. She might not have approved of his methods, but they were his own and their student hadn’t come to her weeping of his cruelty. It worked for the both of them it seemed, and she could offer no argument against that. Truly it wasn’t her place to interfere, but still she worried. None the less she sighed softly in relief, returning his kiss with a gentle lick to his cheek before again slipping down into his warmth.
A humorous grin touched her lips when he spoke of not training her –not that she needed the extra practice in her mind- and tilted her muzzle upward to poke beneath his jaw. “Really? Is that the reason?” she inquired coyly, her tail sweeping against his leg in slow, taunting sways. “And all this time I thought it was because you were protecting your ego as a male.” She feigned a sigh of defeat and if her hopes had actually been dashed by this confession. “Obviously I was mistaken.” Delicately she kissed his jaw before resting her head against his broad chest. His worry for her safety was admirable if not touching, but the woman was certainly more than capable of enduring whatever punishment he had dealt out onto the child. She did not address herself as a warrior out of vanity or fame for the title, but as a fact. There may not have been many scars to show for it, and the few that were laden beneath her coat were not from battle but of training, yet her skill could speak for her. Just as her mate’s spoke for, and suited him.