With a little smile, Derek nods. "She's a wolf; she's a pack animal and you're her Alpha. Of course she will," he replies, and it doesn't surprise him that Lady would be loyal to her alpha. He was always loyal to his. Now, of course, he's mostly a lone wolf. He doesn't necessarily consider Scott to be his Alpha, but he supposes that Scott probably doesn't consider Derek his beta so much as a person he can depend on when he needs help.

"You should never be afraid of parts of yourself and, from the sounds of it, that'll eventually be a part of you," Derek says casually, looking up from his work and over to Sansa. "So that's good. I hope you find that part of yourself, I really do."