Maggie didn't reply to his words other than to speed her footsteps up just a little. She'd accepted him from the first for every facet of his being - from the man to the animal forms he shifted into. It hadn't ever bothered her, not even when she woke up sometimes lying next to a huge bear in her bed.

Besides. He seemed to be a little less snap to temper or discomfort since he'd come to accept his whole self, even the shifting. And if catering to that part of him every now and then helped? Such were the sacrifices she had to make.