A Summer Job

Her response was intriguing. He'd never heard of a wolf reading before. It was a thing among primates; Tashi mentioned once having a elder who recorded history and took care of the troop's library of knowledge. But wolves? This was a first for him. "Books, you say? I've never heard of any of our kind reading before." He wondered about the applications of such a thing. Why bother learning to interpret the symbols, read the symbols, and then memorize them when simply memorizing them from word of mouth would cut out all that time in the beginning? It was an odd concept that was for sure. "What are dictionaries?"

As for her comment about putting guts back together in the right order, it instantly brought to mind his brother, Alarr, who he was sure would find that to be an easy task. Tyrian chuckled appreciatively. He didn't know if she'd meant that as a joke but nonetheless it was funny. It also gave him a better idea of her skills and honestly he was relieved to hear she was more skilled than he first thought.

"What should I expect from here?" A very good question. One Tyrian was eager to answer. "For the first few weeks you could expect a life of menial tasks as I want you to appreciate all that it is we do here before making Fireside your home. If, at the end of that time you like it here and we are certain we'd benefit from your presence, you'll get a rank that matches your skill level and interest. So, say you want to be a healer and you earn that healer rank. A lot of your time will be spent taking care of the livestock. Worming, illness, castration, breeding, birthing, the whole shebang. You'll take care of our injured should something happen to our workers in the field, and you'll treat our raiders when they return home." That's right, raiders. If she had a problem with that, now was the time to bail.

"In return you can expect to never go hungry. You'll live among very capable, highly independent wolves who come and go as they please, and work for the betterment of the whole. Some of them while being very..." Jupiter, Ashmedai, Sparrow... "Unique. It's fair to say that as a whole we buck tradition. Don't expect to find very many socially conservative wolves here."