and you're to tell him nothing personal

lol sorry in advance

He did not care for her tone, but her feisty answer amused the injured madman. "My precious leader is quite precious to me, indeed. She must have seen something in your empty head to admit you into her ranks; now, Cara, what was it?" he purled rustily, holding her eyes with his own. "It is not your pretty face ... no, no. What could it be?" he mocked.

Kaname approached, and the shaman grunted. "Such wounds grow worse before they heal themselves. You smell the poison the herbs draw out of the flesh; when I have mended sufficiently, I shall go to the sea and wash it." He saw no reason to explain himself to the assassin, but Kaname had proven himself a loyal wolf to Jinx, and for that he had earned Lecter's limited respect.

The trio were joined by a much newer wolf, and the shaman's ears fell back against his skull in immediate dislike for her injection of herself into a gathering where she was not known. "One more foolish than yourself," he snapped at Cara. "What do you bring? insipid words? womanly wiles?" Lecter growled, now addressing the newest arrival to the terse conversation.