Larksong Grotto Old packs and new

She was uncomfortable, clearly, but Ditty just thought that she was shy. He wondered if she got compliments, like, all the time — but if she was so shy about it, that probably meant not. Maybe he just needed to give her more compliments until she would stop being shy.

Yet the subject shifted to her arrival in the pack, and Ditty felt kind of proud that he was marked as first joiner and highest in rank besides Reek and Tavi despite Luna being someone from the old pack. "Oh!" he said, "That's kind of neat. I ran into Reek when things just started up. Number one joiner, I was!" His voice indicated that he was kind of proud of this fact. "So you didn't agree with them getting kicked out, then? Closer to Reek than the previous Alpha female?" Ditty wanted all the juicy details, and he hoped she would give them to him.