Along the Western Wall

Amos stood incredulous as Regulus told him about the raid. The way he explained it made it seem to Amos that the attackers really should have thought of better options. Surely a clever leader might've found less risky alternatives. Fighting was cool and all, but knowing when not to leap into risky decisions was important. Shaking his dark head Amos breathed "That's pretty terrible. I can't imagine someone making a decision like that... Attacking family," Well, maybe he wouldn't find it so distasteful if it were uncle Cerb in his sights, but he wouldn't want to cause harm to his parents, siblings, or even Felicien. "An I'm sure dealin' with the aftermath is a hell of a task for anyone."

Digesting Regulus's answer, Amos decided that alliances sounded preferable to the other options. Even if you weren't surrounded by enemies, friends were more useful in tough times than neutral parties. "Hm..." he mumbled, absorbed in his own thoughts for a long while until 'Rielle was mentioned and the boy had to laugh and shake his head a bit, "Almost too good." The thought of the shimmering girl who was too adult for her own good had him amused. Sure she wasn't childish, which was fine, but she also seemed too serious to even be child-like.

As the red man launched into the explanation of ranks Amos found he was actually kind of fascinated. He wondered if Aurielle actually would change the ranks and things when it was her turn to rule. Part of him didn't think so, maybe because of how deeply proud she was of her family, but then again he couldn't know until that time came. Knowing she would take over at two was kind of amazing. He was a season past his first birthday and he wasn't really sure if he could handle being responsible for more than himself yet. Of course the Future of Celestial had good teachers and seemed very intelligent, so he figured she would do great.

He took in all that the Archangel would say, explaining the many ranks in the tiered hierarchy. As Regulus moved to perch atop the boulder Amos would move to explore the meeting area, sniffing around curiously with an ear tipped in towards the crimson leader so he didn't miss a word. Settling down in the middle of the space when he was finished checking it out, he listened to the rest as a very engaged audience of one.

Amos liked the idea of having ranks for wolves who wanted to do more than one thing. He imagined it took someone driven to want to do multiple tasks, but then they also would have lots to keep them occupied instead of experiencing lapses of activity part of the time when their duties were lower priority. Interesting! He kind of thought it would be cool to have such a rank, but also didn't know what he'd want to do other than something fighting related. He offered the older man an undaunted smile and chuckled, "It'll take more than that I fear, but ye ought to be careful what you wish for," his words a playful warning since the dark boy was more than capable of talking anyone's ear off and positively drowning  them in questions when given a chance.

"I like the idea of ranks where one can pursue two passions. Do you find that wolves prefer that over traditional ranks with singular duties, or do they tend to gravitate towards the options that require less of them?" he queried, allowing for an answer before continuing, "I'm also curious how quickly members tend to rise through ranks and whether there's much competition for higher ranks. I assume it takes a higher level of commitment to push for higher ranks. If there aren't a lot of higher ranked wolves I'm sure that means it takes more than doing the bare minimum and sticking around to climb higher. Is that kind of determination to climb as high as possible something you would prioritize in new members?"

Truthfully the more he hung out around Celestial the more he thought maybe joining a pack wouldn't be so bad. Were all packs like this? Maybe he needed to investigate some and find out, just for fun. A thought hit him suddenly and he quickly asked before he forgot, "Oh, so for joint trainings with other packs, I was curious - I know that fighters, hunters, and healers can training together pretty easily, but you mentioned the messenger line of ranks and I was wondering what kind of training they might do?"