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Reyson was used to others growing uneasy in his presence, he was not what you would call normal. His deep yet direct voice, the blunt way he spoke. Surely he could be animated and happy. He could speak and laugh, but only amongst a few he deeply cared for. Having watched his parents torn  asunder by the very pack that then raised him. Learning how to kill, and maim, and hunt and raze it had done a number on his psyche he imagined.

Reyson tilted an ear forward, and tapped his tail once against the dirt. My mother didn't have time to teach me very much, before I was taken and soldiered. But she taught me enough were I to get sick to heal, a wound, she liked cobwebs for binding.

Reyson was not adverse to bonds, he just had trouble making them. The last being Renaud.

He gave a soft quiet whuff. "Perhaps, I will tell you of them someday. Though it was a risk we both knew could happen, given our lives. We didn't expect it to. Thank you.
 
Reyson did not hold his emotions in. After this conversation he would run, or he would spar, or he would fish. He may even hunt for the mint that Renaud loved to chew on so much, and take a sniff and a bite. He would watch the sunset and he would remember.

Reyson gave her his attention, all of it. He had a special part of his cold hard heart for healers. They were in a class all of their own, and he would protect this wolf much more than he would protect another.

I am glad you know how to fight, Mrs. Aquene, but I am glad you heal much more. We need more healers. There are countless wolves like me, willing to fight and die. Not as many willing to put those we care for back together again, often at the expense of themselves. It doesn't always take a special wolf to fight, but it does to heal.

He nodded his head. Certain he had spoken the truth. See he could be a conversationalist if he wished. He just didn't normally like to speak at such length. He hoped this she wolf, wouldn't go and tell others of his words. He would much prefer the quiet blunt way he usually was.