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She smirked, and pulled back lightly; he was untidy, and while there was a sort of charm to seeing him doing labour, she didn't want to get dirty herself. She froze, however, under the touch of his teeth, and relented with a sigh, leaning in toward him. At least this close to him, she could start loosening some of the dead roots and debris from his pelt. 

She twitched when he spoke, startled and surprised. She felt heat leap to her cheeks, flattered that he deigned the topic worth discussion. "Jutht now." She said. It occurred to her only then that Relic had had his head, literally, in a hole in the ground- and wouldn't have heard his cousin's call. "I din't thee him yet, juth't thmelled him. An' hith thent, mikthed with Avicuth'th." All of the youth has been commanded, at some point or another, to pair their scent with hers along the borders. It had felt like a rite of passage when Lilia had patrolled with Avicus, and she assumed now that Avicus had reclaimed Ancelin into the pack.

She fell silent, wondering if he might speak again, while she silently continued grooming his coat.