Blacktail Deer Plateau gethsemane

Lasher's next statement proved to cut away some of Dante's confusion, though wrongly so. Worry was inspired, for he assumed it was his distance of late that had caused Lasher to think he preferred to spurn such things as close kinship. Did others of the pack feel the same? Did they see him as cold, distant, uncaring? If so that was a truly sorry thing, one he would need to find a way to rectify. He could not continue to lead, he was sure, if that were so.

"I know that I do not... bond, as easily as some." He replied, somewhat subdued, "but that does not mean I do not wish for it. I just do not know how." Lasher seemed amused rather than upset, but Dante thought a bit more serious of the matter, for he did not like the idea of his packmates thinking him unfeeling towards them.