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Happiness and worry and… happiness quietly flooded through Thorn's system. The scent was Russian and now her words matched it. She spoke with a deep Russian accent, one that Thorn had once held himself before he truly mastered English and began speaking it more often. Russian was still his native tongue but often he thought in his second language as well as speaking it. He fidgeted as she hopped off the horse and brought it closer. He was more comfortable now with her wagging tail and her grip on his reins. If the horse suddenly took a disliking to him at least she would have control. Thorn raised a hand to the horse, wanting to pet its snout but hesitating. His own salt and pepper tail wagged a bit more and he replied back in kind, knowing now that she would be able to understand him.
"Это было слишком давно я слышал, мой язык." He smiled, acknowledging her words and that he had thought the same thing. It would be nice to have all this but didn't packs that lead by just one wolf have the same sort of dominion over all? "That would be a shame for everyone but that one lucky creature. Perhaps it is why most packs are run by two. Just one and there is too much power." He hadn't expected to talk politics but he was driving the conversation that way. He still got pangs of homesickness and now was the time of one of those pangs. "I'm Thorn Russo, originally from Sobirat'sya and now Vinatta." He extended a hand like the human custom dictated. A tiny part of his brain hoped the name of his birth pack would be known to the female, a little connection might ease the homesickness.
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