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Valinta should get into the advertising business. 
Forgot to make this short but oh well!
Slade had managed to ignore the single word in Valinta's speech that wasn't English, but when she began using it slightly more frequently he could only hope that, if she continued talking like this, she would keep giving translations. Just don't start rambling in... whatever language that is?
Fortunately, as Valinta went on to answer his inquiry, she used English. Slade was interested to hear her comment about leaving "family" members "in the dark"; maybe she had left Cercatori for that reason? Again the thought came over him that doubted his true roots to the pack he had first joined. Was Valinta suggesting that the pack had no love for him? He could hardly think this over before she threw on another statement: there weren't many members in this forming family.
The realization hit Slade like a brick wall, which immediately put an end to his tail wagging and puppy-like curiosity. She was trying to recruit him. He hadn't been in a situation like this before; he had joined Cercatori d'Arte out of his own free will and had never been in a pack prior. Nobody had ever bothered trying to recruit him, and he could honestly understand that. He was a Lupus; he couldn't even write. The best he could do was chase down measly rodents with his bare paws, and yet here was Valinta, suggesting that he join her pack in the makings. He wasn't sure whether to be touched, confused, or doubt her common sense.
After blinking a few times--as if it would help straighten his thoughts--Slade decided to take a less direct approach to his response. Valinta hadn't explicitly asked him to join the pack. Maybe it was a misconception and she wanted him to tell his loner friends--as if he had many--about it. For the sake of formulating an answer, Slade went with this idea as he responded with a question. "What's the pack called?"
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