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#####The space between them and the meat on the plate was making the situation awkward for him. He was certainly not going to eat first, especially because he had brought her the rabbits in the first place for her. On the other hand, however, he felt that it was rude to disregard what she was saying as if it did not matter to him, because it most certainly did. Even if there was not something forming between the two of them, her thoughts, words, and opinions would still matter to him, as a pack mate as well as a friend. "Ladies first," he said with a gentle smile, though he did reach out to pick up one of the smaller pieces for himself. He would eat when she did, and he found this to be a fair compromise for the both of them.
#####The fact that she was planning on moving the pups with her was very good, in his opinion, and he was glad to hear of it. Surely Leroy would not like them being in a different house all of the time, but it was not as if he could not visit. While the shepherd-malamute mix did feel badly for the black and white male, he knew that the pups absolutely needed to be with their mother. In this situation, they would have to make do with visits to and from their father. "That is good, as it is important for them to be with their lovely mother. Do you have a plan on where you will go, come springtime?" Vigilante had offered her the extra room in his house, but he had also offered to help her fix up another house in Lunenburg if she wanted, and he was curious to know if she had given either idea any serious thought, and which she preferred.
#####As she spoke, Vigilante listened intently, absorbing the information as she gave it. While doing so, he began to eat the small piece of meat he had taken, as she had so kindly already begun to eat. What she told him was interesting. He had known of and been an unwelcome visitor in many packs, and some of them had been a mix of wolves and luperci, with the occasional pack that was purely made up of regular wolves. However, he had never heard of the wolves worshipping the luperci in any of the packs he had learned of or experienced. It was an interesting thought, and he could not help but wonder if it was similar to the way that his parents had been the leaders of their pack, but the Elders had been the ones in charge generally, and he and his sister had been revered for their supposed destiny for the cursed future.
#####At her last sentence, he shook his head and chuckled in response to the sheepish disclaimer. "I like when you speak," he countered, "and you most certainly do not speak too much. I like hearing what you have to say, Ayita, and I enjoy hearing more about you," he ended, on a more serious note. While she was far more vocal than he was, it was not something that bothered him in the least. He did not speak as much as most, preferring his own stoic silence or minimal speaking, though he did enjoy talking with her. If anything was going to happen between the two of them, as well, he wanted to know as much about her as possible. It was unfortunate that he was not currently willing to reciprocate.