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Chaos nodded acceptingly at the kid's firm rejoinder. "Fair enough," he allowed. He'd just have to wait and see if, at the sticking point, she proved herself. He wouldn't be too hard on her if she changed her mind though. After all, she was a bit young for her ability to make good decisions to kick in yet. He grinned inwardly. Hell, his hadn't even kicked in yet.

Faint irritation bloomed as he was hailed with a loud 'oy'. His head twisted to regard the scarred male posing on a rock. "Oy yourself," he replied with a faint edge to his voice, though his face remained smoothly friendly. A warning that he might be relaxed, but not so relaxed he'd be willing to put up with someone trying to act dominate to him so he'd best cool it. "There's always room for someone who's willing to pull their own weight. You game? What can you bring to the Crew? Could always use a wolf with experience, and gotta say you look like you've seen some things."

His expression noticeably changed as his attention shifted back to the nebulously marked female. Artemis. Well of course it would, wouldn't it? He was a healthy young male and she was an attractive bitch. But hers wasn't just a pretty face (though if one were honest it could be admitted that he would have let her in on that merit alone) it seemed, trained as she was to hunt and to fight. Useful skills for a small young pack. "So, Artemis," he said casually, savoring the taste of her name despite his inability to properly pronounce it, "Which would you want to specialize in then? Fighting or hunting? I mean we'll all be doing a lot of both, probably, so it's really just a rank to brag about to wolves who aren't lucky enough to be part of the Crew." He winked and grinned.

"Training can definitely be arranged for everyone who wants it," he continued, shifting his gaze to include all of them, even the grizzled older male. "In fact I very strongly encourage it. None of us knows what the others are capable yet so I'm going to just stick with yearlings and under going to apprentices and full adults ranking in whatever direction they want to go. If you suck though, I am going to send you back to school. All unofficial-like, no assigned mentors or anything unless we end up needing to. I'd rather we all learn from each other and have a variety of experience to learn from instead of getting stuck in a rut listening to just one wolf. So what do you guys say? You all coming home with me or what?" He grinned again, and though he sent a searching gaze across the land he doubted he'd get any more bites this time. Might as well get this lot back to the territory and settled in if they were all serious.

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