[The fact of the matter here is that he's talking about a lot of stuff that's completely over her head. Nariko possesses a resilience and emotional durability that far outpaces her age, but she's still a little dense about her feelings, and she's not above being rather childish when she isn't being A Parent (tm). What that really means is that she has to actively think, and while she does that she seems to hold his cheek with one hand, and then both.
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My dad said that ... Being an Alpha means making the people around you flourish, that you don't ... You never have power for the sake of lording it, it's to give it to other people in the specific ways they need it.
[It's awful to feel so nostalgic.] It seems like he and Yori might really get along. Because she's - actually doing something incredibly difficult, right? For everyone else's sake?
[This, by default, makes Yori and incredibly good, right, and just human being whom Nariko will well and truly respect and defend. Not that their Alpha needs a tiny Pomeranian of a teenage girl to do anything, but still.]
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My dad said that ... Being an Alpha means making the people around you flourish, that you don't ... You never have power for the sake of lording it, it's to give it to other people in the specific ways they need it.
[It's awful to feel so nostalgic.] It seems like he and Yori might really get along. Because she's - actually doing something incredibly difficult, right? For everyone else's sake?
[This, by default, makes Yori and incredibly good, right, and just human being whom Nariko will well and truly respect and defend. Not that their Alpha needs a tiny Pomeranian of a teenage girl to do anything, but still.]