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Evelyn answered the unasked question of what her rank was, which was a crafter. Simple enough; Slade had seen Shawchert crafting a chunk of wood into a mini tree. The art didn't interest him much, even though he might have found it a bit more intriguing had he been able to try it himself. A short silence went by as he contemplated this--if he would find certain activities more enjoyable had he been able to perform them-- but the Luperci once again came up with a question. Well, the answer to that was somewhat complicated: Slade couldn't write without hands, and he wasn't completely certain if his stories fit Evelyn's definition, whatever it was, of "good".
As he tried to think of an answer, Evelyn stopped in her tracks, causing Slade to look up and try to follow her gaze in confusion and slight fear; was whatever she had halted to see a cause of concern? His wariness quickly died when he noticed she was looking at a building, its wood rotted and undeniably old. How could a place of this condition manage to keep standing to this day? It was obvious that nobody or very few Luperci had bothered to help fix it; to Slade it looked like the roof could cave in at any moment.
The fact that he failed to see the attraction to the wooden structure made him even more surprised when the girl walked up to one of its broken windows. Had she managed to spot something that he couldn't see due to their height difference? Slade trotted up to her, taking a quick sniff of the building; it was currently unclaimed and hadn't been occupied for a very long time. When the fact that Evelyn had been looking for a house suddenly reoccurred to the coyote, he could only stare up at her in even more confusion. "See something interesting in there?"
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