Derek's eyebrows shoot up. Dire wolves are extinct where he comes from. His eyes shift back to Lady, impressed. "She's big, bigger than the wolves where I come from. Hey, girl...it's okay," he says, shifting his attention to the wolf completely for the moment, letting his eyes light up a bright, icy blue. He doesn't know if she'll understand that for what it is like the coyotes back home seemed to, but he hopes that it offers her some comfort knowing that her suspicion is correct.

With a blink of his eyes, the glowing blue drops away and Derek's green human eyes shift back up to look at Sansa. "Yeah, I think most people are afraid of them. Oh, no I...no, I don't have a wolf. I am...a wolf, I mean. I can be. But she's still welcome to come running with me sometime, if she wants. I don't really bother hunting when I'm in form, but I wouldn't begrudge her doing it," he replies.

Then, he gives her something of an apologetic grin. He knows that's a lot to take in for most people. A little smirk tugs up the corners of his mouth when she tells him that Baby is her boyfriend. "Boyfriend, yeah. That's cool. I didn't know him until very recently. My friend Kara found him by the well when he was an actual baby and she and I took turns taking care of him. He seems like a cool guy."

If Lady will let him, Derek reaches to scratch her behind the ear. "It's been a minute since I saw you last. You hanging in there?" he asks, looking back over at Sansa and then going back to packing the box he'd been working on before she and Lady had approached.