OOC: Gah, more delay failness. Weekends are busy.
Instead of getting a scolding, Slade was surprised to hear that the first thing the stranger noticed was that he didn't have a virus. Assuming that the virus was the form of Luperci, he found the female's warning slightly comical. He knew that he had been poking his nose into the wrong places, but it was amusing the way she had put her words. She sounded stiffly formal and deathly serious, however, so Slade kept these thoughts to himself.
The next thing Slade knew, she was walking away from him on all fours, which he found somewhat odd; he thought that Luperci preferred movement on two legs, as that was how their Optime form was made. With a small shrug, he was about to turn around and simply let the incident be an incident and little more than that, but he realized that he was passing up a prime opportunity to get to know someone. Hoping that the female wouldn't turn out to be anything like that other wolf he had met recently, Jaden, Slade followed her, making sure his pawsteps could be heard so he didn't surprise her.
"So, what's your name?" he asked casually, keeping his body relaxed. Slade was hoping not to appear too starch. As of late, getting to know others had become a desideratum for him, and so far he felt he was doing a pretty good job at it. Well, there was Jaden to consider; the two hadn't exactly made friends, but Slade knew that he couldn't hold a grudge against all strangers because of that. That would make him no better than Jaden himself.
Instead he decided that he would try to get the female to show a friendlier side, if she had one, and asked, "Are you in a pack?" He hoped it didn't sound like an inept question; Slade had been in the area for a couple of months now, but he had only really explored his own territory and Ethereal Eclipse and couldn't possibly recognize the scent of other packs if his life depended on it.
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