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satisfied by the young wolf's performance during this "gut check," stigmata gave an approving wag of his tail and smirked bemusedly at his cohort's following query.

is there anything else you want me to do?

"but of course, young winterbourne," the general replied coolly. "ours is a work that is never done. join me, if you will. we can see to some of those things right now." he would take the once ailing boy, and try to show him what was expected of him. more than this, he would try to imbue in him a sense of ownership - a sense that a territory in these very mountains could one day belong to him and his own children, if he thought he wanted that for himself...

but it may have been these same things that would later find winterbourne gone from his ranks, and though stigmata may never know what happened to the sterling adolescent, he did hope his absence was not because any harm had befallen him.