The gray male responded that he had only been here since last month, and she nodded. "Yes, I only returned last month as well," Xeris replied. "I had been...elsewhere. A place called Heritage Retreat. I am Xeris de Heritage, you see; our family is named after the wolf heritage that we tried to stick to...which as you can see, I ended up not sticking to." She shrugged her human-like optime shoulders, giving something of a small smile.
She was rather surprised when Davyn decided to give the sketch to her, but she smiled at him warmly. "Thank you very much, Davyn," she told him sincerely. "Perhaps I can put it up in my cabin. Say, where did you learn to draw like this? I don't even know how to use human instruments like that. Can you read, too?" Xeris had been raised as a wolf, not as a Luperci, after all, and she knew very little about human things like reading and writing.
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