All About the Acoustics

"Ach. Friends, former packmates..." Said the man softly as he reasoned through what she'd told him. "No, you're just not a very big pack any longer!" He would say a moment later, a grin splitting his features as his head bobbed slightly. What he would have given to have some of his old friends back... or even just one of them. He missed them terribly, as well as the young pup he'd once tried to raise like his own. But that was gone now. He's moved on.

Mikhail's grin became a small smile as he continued: "At least you have your friends with you in a strange land. It does make things easier, to be all together, does it not?" His head canted as he spoke the question rhetorically. "I wonder though, my dear lady-wolf, why you come all this way? What happened to your pack?" He knew he might be stepping into sensitive territory and his expression became suitably subdued as he enquired. "Of course, you do not have to tell me, Frau Faria. I am only a curious man, and I ask many questions! But I imagine you might be at least a little like me, Frau, and you had to come here."