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Fox scrutinized the male, listening to Bazi and then to Galileo. He had bowed, a sign of respect, and for that, Fox was glad. The last thing she wanted was the responsibility of having to repeatedly put somebody in their place. The fact that he had survived on his own, although some kind of accomplishment, was off-putting to the young Alpha. It made her suspicious of why he had been able to gather anybody around him for so long. But maybe "long" was not really that much time to begin with.

"How long have you been alone?" she asked. "And why did you not seek the company of others?" Then again, perhaps he had. Perhaps they had rejected him for one reason or another. It was that suspicion that brought him down a notch in her mind.