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The exchange went amiably. Farstep didn't miss the ease with which Romulus submitted to Taggarik, far different than the way he himself had been treated. That was expected given a difference in ranks, but his eye would remain upon the youth as well, critical until such a time as Romulus proved that he knew who his superiors were. Who all of them were, not just the Alpha male.

He slunk away from the scene, shaking out his fur as he went, intent on finding a stream to slake his sudden thirst.