-- Primarily in anticipation of Machi saying or doing or thinking of bad things. X3 Proactive reasons, essentially? I don't think it really needs it at this point but Machi is peculiar like that..
Machidael is by me!
Hm, he said, drawing his head back as he considered thoughtfully. He had never held hope of finding an oasis of intelligence, canines who would value him for who he was and what he was capable of -- but perhaps some small and childishly optimistic part had held out over the years after all. Just then, he'd felt its death, but it was hardly something to weigh on his mind: just the lifting of a feather-light, barely perceptible shift.
Ancestry is meaningless in the end, he said, giving a shooing sort of gesture with one hand. Unproven ancestry is especially useless. How do you know Kaena is our grandmother, lacking our paternal link? Be careful they don't throw you out on your ass like al-Iskandariyya did to us. He did not sound especially concerned, nor look it -- consumed as he was in picking off a flaking piece of his claw -- but the cautionary warning was more than he would have given any other creature but a blood sibling.
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