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It was honestly good to hear that he'd been missed in some capacity; he'd wondered at the time of kicking out if maybe everything he'd been trying to do so far had flown completely under the radar.  Granted, he'd gone about it the wrong way, but getting shut down so quickly by Elwood had irritated him some.  He liked to think he'd been a pretty damn useful packmate in his time.

"Good to hear.  For what it's with, I told Qui if it causes any issues, I won't take it personally if you change your mind."  He shifted some, shrugging.  "Been a wanderer before and I didn't hate it."  He wasn't going to get too attached to the idea of remaining, not yet; no matter what Quixote said, he couldn't shake the idea that his place here was tenuous.

He almost made a comment on her rise, but didn't.  He didn't know her thoughts or what she knew about his conversation with Towhee, and if he was going to have a confrontation, he'd save it for the second herself.  "Did I miss much? Aside from the shakeup that is."