Mind Your Manners

"My culture teaches that the hellions tend to be the most successful," she observed. "Boldness in children is welcomed and encouraged - though it doubtlessly adds gray to the muzzle at a young age for the parents, hmm?" She fell silent as Mithras went unexpectedly solemn, and explained that he, his sisters and a friend were exiles here. "It is a noble deed," she said in reply. "And I understand the difficulty of being so far from your own culture, with a new language and naught but strangers about you. You have my sympathies." She thought for a moment, considering if a year would have been time enough for him to have encountered either Kismet or Vereux, and decided it would be worthwhile to ask. After all, he could keep watch for them perhaps. "I ask, as a few of our members have disappeared and perhaps you may have seen them in your travels. We seek a Vereux Armada - a young male, slate blue with white markings and a single green eye. He bears a painted mark over his missing eye. He went missing some time ago with no word, and we do not know if he passed from this world or if he yet lives, and chose to betray us by leaving in such a manner. The other is a Kismet Adravendi, a young white male with golden brown on his head and two legs, with one blue and one green eye. He abandoned his post when set to defend Yfir's borders in the midst of a raid, turned his back on us and put our lands in peril with his selfish actions, and we will bring him to face justice for it." Perhaps not the greatest incentive for a kindly wolf to give information up about a wolf's whereabouts, but Katja was hardly going to lie about it.