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She decided not to press the question further when she saw Mars shook his head. Lordy, he’s a quiet one, isn’t he? Never had she met anyone who could talk so little, save for Magic, who she knew talked in his own way. But this wolf dog was almost impossible to decipher; she wasn’t especially curious about what he was thinking, and she didn’t expect him to reveal everything about himself, but that fact that he revealed nothing was almost frustrating.
Continuing to play along with his song, even when the tempo sped up, Pixie’s ears perked up at his question. “Skye Collins,” she replied, reciting the name of her friend with ease. “She’s the second-in-command of a pack forming north of here. I can’t quite recall the name at the moment, but it had something to do with art.” It seemed to be the same language that Silvano, Savina, and the other Crimson Dreams members related to them spoke. But she couldn’t be sure—she knew no foreign languages, other than a fraction of low speech from being around Magic. All the rest sounded the same to her. Maybe the name of Skye’s pack was Russian. “Is the name Mars from Russia?” she blurted out. “Or Russo? They both don’t sound like any name I’ve ever heard.” There was only one other person she had known that had a name starting with an “M”: her elder brother Melbourne, who had been literate and had taught her how to spell a few words before he left the family pack to form one of his own. Like Mars, he had been a quiet wolf who spoke only when necessary, preferring to write his words rather than say them out loud. She couldn’t blame him for leaving; human skills like writing, horseback riding, and playing guitar were frowned upon by their family.
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