i look forward to our partnership

Avantika nodded as he gave his answer. That wasn't so long ago, just as she had expected. She would hope, despite her admitted tendency to be a bit distant at times, that she would know him if he had been a part of the Hallows for a while. She had been a part of the pack for much longer than him then.

He returned the question to her, which was a bit of a surprise. She had expected him to assume that she had been born in, since she carried the Carpathius name. "Must have been three years ago by now," she answered honestly. While she would have liked to pretend -- and it was true, in a way -- that she had begun her life on that day and the previous two seasons had not actually happened, she also understood that where she had come from was important to her current reality, all of her obsessions and anxieties.

She focused on him once more. "Why did you choose to go for a high rank?"

"Speech"