The pause that falls between his question and her response almost makes him wonder if she's trying to find a polite way to tell him to fuck off, because he's wondering whether she's taking personally the fact that he's not around as much as he could be. Relief washes over him when she doesn't and instead agrees that they can try.

Grinning a little, Derek nods. "Yeah, this isn't really my scene, either. It just seemed like something Glinda would be into. I work at CriminALES; I'm security," he replies, offering her an alternative. "Maybe sometime when I'm off we can meet up there, or you can stop in when I'm on, if you'd rather."

Derek isn't big on this sort of thing, either, if he's honest. It's a lot more fancy than he prefers, but he's having fun anyway. He hopes his cousin is, too.

"Or, do you run? I run every morning. Sometimes also at night. Usually I do it in wolf form, if I can get the privacy to do it, but if you need me to stay like this, I can do that, too." The fact that she can go full coyote isn't something Derek is ignorant of, but he doesn't know the whole story, whether she is stuck like this now and doesn't know how to switch back or if she does, but she gets stuck in coyote and doesn't know how to come out of that. He figures it's safer to just offer the option for him to stay bipedal with her if she needs that.