Big Salmon Lake Vague statements

Some of it sounded pretty believable -- he had to deal with Towhee's whims, and he could easily see her causing some kind of trouble, but that's why he was out here in the first place, wasn't he?  He needed to learn how to talk to people and prevent it since it sure as hell seemed nobody else was gonna do so.  It was a frustrating thought.  Either way, he nodded along with her as she talked, and made a mental note to maybe take a little bit better care of his feet, as suggested.

As long as the boss isn't the one involved in the passion thing, noooo thaaaanks.   He made a face to go along with it, though perhaps a little overdramatic.  Still, 'no leaders' was one of his rules, and he was pretty keen on staying by that one. Would something else be able to check? I mean it could be totally wrong but I dunno if I wanna take that chance. Sure there could be some overlap with others but he wasn't sure -- maybe there was one that she knew would have a higher chance of saying the right thing.

No, the absolute worst one would be Towhee forcing him to become her mate or he'd be kicked out of the pack and/or fed to Finley's pups or something.  Or it could just be garbage, but let's go with the worst option.  The fact that maybe it'd be someone else entirely was foreign to him -- his luck was so bad he'd probably be on his own for another year and a half, surely.  Or maybe the passion was him talking to a friend about how delicious deer were or something.