Dante was glad to hear that he was regarded highly here. His rank could have told him that but to hear it flat out was always nice. And, honestly a little surprising. Then again, it always would be, and Dante liked it that way. To get too comfortable in one's position was to begin to stop working so hard to keep it. He never wanted to reach that point.
He nodded as Peregrine dismissed himself, also hearing the sounds of children returning, if a bit behind the attuned father. He was fully prepared to leave and let him get back to his family, but instead was invited to join them. Touched and immensely flattered by the invitation, he returned Peregrine's nudge with one of his own in kind as he passed. "I'd love to, insistence or no." Turning, he followed, excited to meet the rest of Peregrine's little progenies.
