Blackfeather Woods How naïve are you?

The wolf's reaction was somewhere in the middle of the scale of reactions Cicero expected. It told him relatively little, but he wondered why he was relatively cheerful about this day. Maybe it was just the general peace that had fallen over the Woods now that things were beginning to fall into this new natural order that he liked.

Cicero was given little extra time to think about it, for the other introduced himself, noting that they had seen each other but not talked much. He nodded and said, "Cicero." Then he wondered, "What sort of things does Mikasi dabble in?" He intended to find out what drove him, what was his passion; but also what specialty within the brotherhood he did or did not aspire. Essentially, it did not matter much in which direction Mikasi's answer was taken, for anything gave him information.