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Her answer for as truthful as it was, did not come as a total surprise to him. Perhaps there were traits of himself that she put words to, but there was a summary there that made him wonder in their correctness. He was not unaware of how easily he had ascended in ranks, how there had been times when packs were wont to let him go when he decided to go. But they had; not once had Mordecai simply slipped away into the night without so much of a word to those that needed to know. He had earned the respect to do as he pleased, one way or another, through some instinctual effort.

And to say that it wasn't empowering to hear such details was a lie itself; he felt pride bubbling to hear that. A certain affirmation that had been absent throughout the short reign he had held with the Spine that he had a bit of a grip on things. Dante certainly trusted him as well, and he had felt he had earned approval out of Lasher and Blue Willow as well. Even Jinx had been approving of him, at least until sickness had riddled her head with the likes of slipping sanity. Yet in light of that surge of pride through him, he also was willing to smother it. It was enough to endear him to Harlyn all the same, and just a bit more.

All in all, it was enough to begin to put some pieces together for him. His silence had come back as she had finished and he found himself wanting to cut the quiet that filled it. "I guess I'll have to think about it. But not now, I think I owe you a story or two about the stars don't I?" A smile crossed his face then, his suggestion of a topic change not so easily hidden. But he had meant what he said, all the same, and presumed she would realize it as well.