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a fair question, then, is presented to the st. clair. for a few moments he is silent, accepting the invitation the bearwitch subtly gives him, falling into step behind the younger man to adhere to the fact that the bearwitch was the leadingman. i stand with nothing to gain by lying to you, joaquin points out. if anything he suspects that turning traitor to the bearwitch would not end well for him, not in the slightest. — and i understand that while you have nothing but my word to go by and not knowing me means that it is a leap of faith, there is nothing more important to me than family ...and pack is family. you don't turn your back on it. you don't compromise it. tenets of the consortium that might as well have been engraved past flesh and carrion and into joaquin's very bones. ...to do either would mean death. a recitation of something he believed in to his very core.