Rule 1 - Don't punch above your weight

The expression that passed Keas face could only be called pained. He didn't have words for how badly he wanted to say yes. But he knew that if he broke this rule of his parents, he could kiss his chance at knighthood goodbye. Wiping the constipated look off his face, he turned and looked to the cat as they were introduced, and nodded his head to them. "I'd introduced you to Spud, but he's back in the Hallows." He apologized, thinking of his own companion. He'd be put out that Kea had had an adventure without him.

His lips twitched in a smile at her exasperated words. "Perhaps it has more to you being bit sized than your color?" He suggested, looking at the tiny scrap of a wolf.

"Ah, you looked very knightly." He explained "I'm Ciaran Syn Carpathius, training to be a Knight of the Hallows." He introduced himself next "but you can call me Kea"