Blackfeather Woods i'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

Marking borders. Cicero wondered it Pietro would be anything like Damien. Cicero did not know what his and Damien's father had been like, if he'd been anything like Burke (aside from the fact that he had abandoned them where Burke had stayed). It seemed that Pietro's interests extended quite far, and Cicero smiled down at him as he said: "It sounds like Pietro likes a lot of things. That is good." The smile expanded slightly when Pietro said that he liked Cicero, too. Being loved was a good thing. "Cicero likes Pietro too." He wasn't really sure why he said it, for Cicero had never been one to indulge others by telling them whether or not he liked to spend time with them. Then again, Cicero had never had younger siblings — or pups, to start with, aside from Baldur — in his life to start with.

Judging from Pietro's excitement over marking the border, Cicero guessed that he had not yet been taken outside of Blackfeather Woods. It would come, in due time, but for now Cicero was not going to take Pietro to do anything Burke might disagree with; or that would worry Burke, were he to return and find his son gone from the den. Furthermore, Pietro seemed sleepy anyway, and so Cicero simply remained in silence, allowing Pietro to do as he pleased: talk some more, drift back to sleep, or suggest an activity for them to do.