That's a significant comparison.
*I mean it accurately, not as a compliment or otherwise,* she said. *Just: that specific quality of full attention that doesn't announce itself. He's learned it.*
I looked at Caius.
He looked at me.
"Ren's awake," I said. "She's been awake since the Ziko rotation started."
He held my gaze.
"Can I—" he started.
"Yes," I said. Before he finished.
He crossed the yard.
I followed.
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Ren looked at Caius the way she looked at everything — comprehensively, with the eyebrow deployed as a precautionary measure.
He crouched in front of the carry-cradle.
He didn't say anything immediately.
My wolf: *He's reading her.*
She's three weeks old.
*He spent four months reading people in the dark. He learned to do it very carefully.* A pause. *He's doing it
