Immediate.
The body never lied as elegantly as adults did.
Children especially.
Children told the truth with shoulders, fingers, breath, the way they leaned toward safety or folded away from threat.
And those boys had just folded.
Matteo and Luca noticed it too. I knew because both of them shifted behind me, barely enough for anyone human to notice, but I had been living around wolves for a month now. I knew the difference between standing and preparing to become a problem.
I did not look back.
I could not mindlink them, unfortunately, which was rude and inconvenient. But I could tilt my head half an inch to the side, and apparently after one month with Caelin I had learned enough Alpha-adjacent body language for them to understand.
They stilled.
Good boys.
At least someone was t
