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Despite Caspa's brazen exterior, there was also a streak of obedience running through her, maybe inherited from human-bred ancestry, or perhaps trained into her by the tyranny of her domineering birth-pack. She understood hierarchy, or thought she did. The setting of one above another was a simple way to ensure that harmony was kept, with the more worthy of leadership higher up the ranks, and it was even possible that a high ranking was the sole qualification for worth, sometimes, as long as a basic or primal law of goodness was not violated or the power abused. She was a special case, though, and so was the Court, being not a truly-governed settlement, but a disorderly mixture of followers with different backgrounds and beliefs. Still, the truth of hierarchy survived here, for where would they be if they did not all know to follow their King? When it came to Caspa thinking herself a special case, though, this was simply because she had given herself to the higher power and dedicated her life to the same: thus, whatever leader she followed was merely a reflection of the fact she followed one much greater. Of course, this changed nothing at face value, and without clarification such a small point would never be noticed by another of her packmates. This was a fact that existed purely within Caspa's mind and perhaps her soul, if such a thing truly existed as she thought. Whichever way round you saw things, though, she was a born follower: and if the day came there was nobody set higher above her to follow, she would still have the True Path to guide her obedient foosteps.
The answer to her question was quite fascinating. Aniwaya was the home of Maska Ahote - or, previous home. Caspa wasn't entirely sure what was happening there now, even though she'd been one of the ones helping to attack it and had even assisted in killing a Guardian, using her poisoned throwing knives. Now there was a new leadership though, so perhaps they were the ones Alder had dealt with to receive his horse - or one of the members, for she'd been told that few of them, even, had been loyal to that prejudiced criminal and kidnapper. "Aniwaya..." she murmured portentously, wondering if this would be enough to prompt him to explain the history of his links with that clan. Likely not. "You have ties there?" she wondered further, for maybe this would go some way to answer her question.
"I am glad to meet you, Alder. Well, gladder than I would have been to be trampled due to my own stupidity," she joked, but her face remained solemn, a trait often found in Caspa that was sometimes considered disconcerting. He looked to be about her age, but far greater in size. He really was tall, she noted now, and well-built. Next to his horse, he didn't seem so large, but that was because that creature would have dwarfed even a nine-foot giant. If Caspa rode it, she thought, the animal would probably forget that she was even on its back: she was a featherweight compared to the male. She did not recognise his smell with great familiarity, and surmised he was not a resident of the Hotel - or very new, and somehow she didn't think he was fresh blood - so he must dwell elsewhere in the packlands, perhaps Lunenburg where she travelled only rarely - most recently to return the young Skoll to his family home. Alder's markings were striking, dark on agouti, and his eyes recalled a sky that was currently hidden behind the grey winter cloud, reminding her of better times - Caspa was a hot-country creature by breeding and found the wintry weather oftentimes difficult.
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