[It's funny how you can almost compare the Dominant and Submissive relation directly to Derek in this instant, and wonder how he could ever find issue with this city if that's all he wants to be - the Alpha to a Beta. Tate doesn't realize it now but it may come to him later that there's a strange difference when it comes to his feelings toward fitting in as Submissive and the want to be a Beta. If he felt this desired, would he be a better sub? Would he embrace this world a bit better if he could understand that the way he wants this?

Maybe it's the same. Maybe he just needs to find the same in those means, too.

He just nods his head and listens to that, cupped fingers dragging a line of sand over the drawings he'd left indented, folding it all back over itself to once again lay flat. He wants to ask why Derek wasn't a good Alpha but it doesn't feel like the moment. He might get an honest answer but - honestly, he's asked enough. He also feels... tired.]

I'll think on it - I want to... to think it through. And not be rash, even if I think I already know what I want. Whatever I pick though, you'll still... we can still be close, right?