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Dante shook his head. Her name wasn't familiar, but he did not meet many outsiders but by chance. The number of nonpackmates he had met probably numbered rather low, especially when compared to outriders and the like. "I have not. Did you get any indication as to what she might be like?"

Even if she hadn't met this Mara specifically, sometimes a lot could be known about a leader by how their subordinates talked about them. Dante wasn't sure what his pack mates said of him on their own encounters, but liked to imagine it was mostly positive. In his position image (frighteningly) actually counted for something, as many could judge the strength of a pack by the leadership it possessed.