He had promised Naiche a companion, and the man had shown indecision in exactly what he wanted. For that reason, and others, he decided to bring the man with him to his meeting with the trader. The man he often went to for these sorts of things had set himself up with a small travelling menagerie. He bred, trained, and studied strange and interesting creatures. Sirius had done favours for him, and exchanged useful artifacts, food, and supplies, for companions. It was early evening by the time he and Naiche arrived at the traders current residence. They passed by a few creatures, some in cages, some picketed to the earth. “Anything catch your eye? Why don’t you take a look around” he suggested, as he himself angled towards the trader. "Speech"

As they arrived Naiche was impressed by the large variety around them of potential animals, numerous ones appeared they could be used for fighting.  A lot of things had caught his eye, but more as curiosity than a desire to claim it.  A silent nod at Sirius suggestion and Naiche took to a slow walk around the cages and picketed animals.  Plenty of the animals he recognized even if he didn’t see them commonly, but a few were new surprises.

Naiche made his way around the options pausing a time or two before stopping to look  at a bizarre species he had not encountered previously.  The creature was one of those picketed instead of in a cage and appeared to have been sleeping.  It was scaly like a lizard but didn’t have the reptile scent to it.  The oddity woke up and when it raises its head Naiche saw skin underneath.  It had a long but then head that moved into that bulkier body and then a long tail.

Certainly it had excellent defensive in a fight but it seemed relatively puny.  The little thing stood up on just its hind legs and Naiche had to reconsider his estimate of it.  Standing it was likely around 2ft or so in height but that wasn’t what impressed Naiche, it was the size of the claws on 3 of the 5 digits that looked positively dangerous should it cut into something.  The tail reminded him of a scaly version of Tamsyn’s lemur, and the claws were certainly sharp enough for climbing.  It’s eyes seemed unfocused suggesting it saw the world in some fashion besides normal sight.

The pangolin and Naiche seemed to be sizing each other up in silence.  Naiche approved of silence.  Looking back to Sirius and the trader, “What is this thing? It can climb I assume, and would it fight?” Certainly it had a solid defense and the claws would do damage but that didn’t mean it would do so.
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Sirius made his way to the trader, and began quietly haggling prices, as Naiche took a look around. When the grass-toned wolf showed interest in a creature, the heads of the haggling wolves raised. The trader moved first, heading towards Naiche. “Ah! The Pangolin, good choice. Versatile creature, it can climb trees, move about on the earth, and you’ll see the hands are digits not unlike a monkey, if not as defined. It lives on ants, and can roll into a ball to protect its soft parts, and its claws, good for climbing, are also excellent for slashing” he went on, labelling the abilities of the creature. “Two large cat coats, and three gems.” Sirius offered, finalising their earlier bartering. “Assuming that’s Naiche’s final decision.” Once again, both sets of wolf eyes settled upon the young student. "Speech"

The trader certainly made the pangolin sound impressive, but that was what any trader with his coat would do.  Sirius had used this guy more than once it seemed so there was at least a moderate level of trust.  He watched the trader as he spoke then looked back at the odd looking creature.

Pangolin.  The two stared at each other for a few more seconds.  The claws were a rather large size compared to its body, climbing and defense and more monkey like digits?  Naiche glanced around at the other animals he had passed by but by comparison came back to looking at the oddity.  The pangolin appeared to be done considering the wolf, going back to all four's and taking a seat.

Naiche fixed his gaze to the trader and Sirius nodding, "I'll take it." The creature hadn't made a sound the entire time he watched it and silence was also in its favor.   Could these things make much noise? The mouth looked so small and oddly formed, not something one would expect to have a loud voice. “Here that?” He asked the pangolin, “now your mine.”

The pangolin at first made no response but then moved a clawed hand to the rope keeping it within its limited radius of movement.  It was ready to be done with the restricted movement.
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It’s a done deal” the trader said, and they shook on it. Sirius grabbed the necessary bits off the small cart his bear companion had pulled along behind them. Bringing them around, and passing them across to the trader. He took them, stored them quickly, and moved to the Pangolin. Passing the rope across to Naiche. “How you train him is up to you, he shouldn’t wonder if you take it off, but if he does it's your problem” Sirius chuckled, accustomed to the ‘washed hands’ style. So far, every creature he had purchased from the man had been worth its salt. The trader grabbed a sealed dish, and passed it to the Warlord. Sirius took one look, grimaced, and passed the container full of ants to Naiche. “chuck him in the cart Naiche, you can work out the particulars with him back in the pack.” "Speech"

“Of course,” Naiche responded to the trader.  Naiche would not be held responsible for something once he sold it off and wouldn’t expect different of another seller.  That was smart business.

Naiche took the offered rope, eyeing the quiet creature that seemed rather unphased about changing handlers.  If it stayed this chill all the time Naiche would be pleased, but he really doubted that.   It seemed a lot of animals were good at being nuisances.  Still, this one might be worth the effort the way it was so armored and strong claws.

He took the pangolin and saw it intended to use those insanely huge claws to climb up the cart.  Naiche lowered his head to give it a boost as if his head were a dang stool.  Naiche tried to shove it in then suddenly found part of the pangolin’s tail around his forehead.  Naiche stalled for a moment at the surprise, noticing those scales were no joke and the tail was a pretty solid thing.  Hopping up with his two paws on the cart he ducked his head down so the pangolin seemed willing to let go.

“Thanks again Sirius,” this was far beyond anything he had earned.  This wasn’t from any blood relative or anyone near similar station as him.  The warlord who was in charge of an impressive number of wolves, and most with more experience than Naiche, was still showing this kindness and taking time out for him.  His band had been only family so maybe this was something other packs would do also but Naiche still felt pretty damn special for it.  He couldn’t imagine it was normal for someone like the armada’s warlord to go throwing gifts around to all wolves in the pack.

Naiche glanced back at a soft scraping sound to find the Pangolin had climb up so it was resting on the top of the cart instead of inside it.  Once up there it seemed content to lay down with legs sagging off either side, tail hidden on the inside of the cart.  Apparently it did like being up high.
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