"I did." said the barbarian, his gaze averted. Good, at least he was minding his manners. The silver male did not speak, instead advanced closer to him, reached out and sniffed him, absorbing the scents that clung onto the captive's coat. Blackfoot Forest. The forest that he and Bazi had went to, the first exploring trip he had as a Swiftcurrent Creek member. She had been the first wolf to approach him, a new recruit and she, a Beta. He had been honored at first, then angered, then just simply emotionless. Grateful she had been nice enough to approach him but the gratefulness soon faded off into a simple awkward friendship. At least he hoped it was one. And now, it was a neutral, perhaps hating relationship and he was actually totally find with it. The less wolves he was close to, the better.

”Blackfoot Forest, huh, Vector?” he said softly, withdrawing and standing directly in front of the agouti male. ”Met someone there too, haven't you?" a icy amused laugh slipped from between the Imperator's lips, chilling the air of the captive's hold. Shadow turned swiftly around and leaped upwards, landing gracefully on a smooth stone boulder that was leaning against a gnarled tree. He gazed down at the captive with glittering silver orbs. It wasn't far away from the ground, in fact it was really close to the ground but provided him with an Imperator-like throne in the midst of the darkness. ”Running out to meet a female? A new girlfriend perhaps? Growing soft aren't you, Vec?” he spoke silkily.

The angel of death surveyed the barbarian for another moment before speaking in a commanding tone ”Come forward,”. Shadow leaped off the boulder and advanced silently towards the dark autumn touched male, his pelt seemingly melting within the shadows before glowing with ethereal light then blending in again. ”You are not afraid of pain or death, Vector, are you? And so you shall not receive those because in the end, they are inevitable. So what should you get instead?”

"She does not have the title of girlfriend. I have no love towards her." The Imperator allowed a cold, mischievous smirk to creep up. "But still growing soft aren't you?" he said, once again in a silky tone. To be honest, although he was seething with quiet anger, a small part of him liked the captive. There was something very Roman-like about Vector that gave him the impression he was a Roman in his previous life, it was only that, that kept him from being shredded into pieces the moment he walked back into his territory. "Pain and death do not scare me. Yet to be on the receiving end, I know of nothing that could substitute for the two." he laughed at that, the same chilling humorless laugh. "Yes, no true warrior should be afraid of pain or death but for the substitute part....." gleaming silver eyes studied the captive in the way a scientist might study a specimen.

Truthfully he wasn't going to physically punish Vector, took too much time and energy to do so. The barbarian would get punished, yes, but not now. Shadow wanted to hear the story instead, of what had happened between him and the female he smelled on his pelt. What did they do? He wanted to see if she would try entering his lands to carry him away, though that seemed......extremely abnormal and probably wouldn't even happen anyways. Vector was capable of looking after himself. And anyways, trespassers were found almost immediately by him, and if not, his packmates. They were efficient border patrollers and trespassers were not to be dealt with gently.

”So, Vector, tell me how she caught your attention. How you two first met, what you did in Blackfoot Forest.” he said in a serious tone as he sat down, curling his tail elegantly around his paws as he leaned against a gnarled tree that bordered the hold. Platinum gaze was even and calm as he gazed into Vector's emerald orbs, waiting for the story to start with a faint flicker of amusement present in his own eyes.

"I met her before I joined you. She showed me how companionship helps rather than hurts, and I returned her wasted time by bringing her food." and so the story began. He said he didn't know his name, didn't bother to ask, that it didn't interest him but she sat with him that she apparently wanted to join but had something to attend to and left. The Roman dealt with many lies in his life, he rarely ever did, only did it to help his friends but his ears, brain and eyes could always detect it when someone else lied. Vector was an experienced wolf in lying but he still detected it. Truth with lies, genius but cowardly, dishonorable, the role of a wolf that was afraid. If he had told the complete truth without lies, perhaps he would have gained something but no, he insisted on lying about what happened. Okay, maybe it wasn't all lies but certainly some were and he loathed, despised hated liars.

"I left to see her, again. She was near a den I directed her to, and her form was weak. The form of an loner incapable of taking care of herself. And intelligently, I brought a rabbit for her to sate a bit of her hunger on. We gazed at the heavens, pondering our futures. I got tired of her endless philosophies, so I left her. And returned home." a soft chilling laugh slipped from the leader's lips, harsh eyes regarding the captive with a cold amusement. He did not speak, instead thought about what to do with this bastard barbarian. He had valuable skills that the Bypass could use but his lying deceptive personality made it hard for him to trust him. How was he to send Vector on missions when he felt that Vector would backstab him instead, it was impossible. However he did not want to kick such a valuable wolf out and have him return on an assassin mission to kill his wolves, he wouldn't be able to kill this Roman but he feared for his own. Finally he spoke, his expression never changing throughout the whole tale. "Is that it?”

The silver male advanced forward, having rose to his paws. "Well Vec, you see, I don't like liars even if they speak half the truth while doing so. I like the whole truth.” he began, gazing with emotionless eyes at the dark autumn wolf. "But I don't want the truth from you, but if you ever leave this hold again when you're a captive, you'll be hunted down as for your girlfriend.....”