"I appreciate it," he said, with an obliging smile. "I've been granted permission to go and visit with my...father...and also to see Casimir and his pups, and I thought to take Chimera with me. Perhaps we'll leave at the same time." His eyes glinted, his maw twitched with the faintest hint of a smirk. "The sisters will be pleased to find themselves free of the company of so many males underfoot for awhile, I'm sure." And perhaps they might have to clean up after themselves as well, for once.

He rose to his paws and stretched. "I'd best be attending to my duties. Unfortunately we cannot all be so...free...with our leisure hours." He nodded a farewell to his would-be superior, his expression good-natured. He liked this wolf, he decided. He hadn't been sure before...but now he was pretty certain they were on the same page about some things. "I appreciate your attentiveness. Perhaps we'll talk again."