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With his son off exploring other parts of the garden, Vigilante was free to discuss the new pack to the north and process the information that Terra gave him without worrying about entertaining the dark boy. He did not necessarily disagree with the idea of living with their roots. The humanistic way of life here often had him feeling uncomfortable, but it was the way that the kingdom had evolved since its creation and he did not think it wise to change that now. It was a style that suited the rest of the kingdom, even if the King himself sometimes felt as if they were in a bizarre state of nonliving. Usually it was fine.
"And they are hostile to outsiders?" he inquired, hoping to confirm this notion from what she had said previously. Perhaps if she told him more of her visit there and the canines that lived there, he could understand the pack more. Certainly it would be worth it to make the journey there to learn more, and in the process, perhaps he could stop by some of the other packs. Many were younger than the kingdom, but he hardly knew anything of them, such as it was that he preferred to stay at home in the kingdom and the rest of the southern part of the lands.
In the north, he knew of the rough coyote clan. The kingdom had never had real troubles with them, and some of the kingdom's members had taken the side of the clan so long ago in the war. The other side had been Dahlia de Mai, but that pack was no longer there, and neither was Phoenix Valley. Things had certainly changed in the north, and he did not know the names of the packs there. The King was poorly educated in the northern hierarchies, but he knew a decent amount of the south.
The south had stayed the same, for the most part. The kingdom, the pack of Dreamers, and the tribe had all remained, though with drastic changes in the tribe recently. The younger packs were the pack of artists and traders, and Anann's new pack. The artists were not particularly new, however, and seemed to be permanently settled. From what he knew of Anann and Jazper, so was the pack of the brotherhood. He would need to learn more about the north so that he was better educated on the packs surrounding his own.
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