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[KANEMARU.]

AIKAWA KANEMARU.

Ah. Backfired. That made sense, really, but it had been worth a shot at least. He hummed in acknowledgement, tilting his head from side to side as he listened intently. He silently noted the fluffing of the feathers; offended xim, had he? Well, now Kane knew a boundary to avoid, so it hadn't been entirely pointless, he supposed.

For a moment, as Vale talked, Kane thought back to the strange duo that had been the bite-happy coyote and the pissy lion he'd first encountered. They'd been making moon eyes at each other the whole time, he remembered with a quiet scoff. The big, pissed off cat was Meteor, wasn't he? A psychopath, Vale had said. Xanti was the cheetah Kane was locked up with. The coyote... Wasn't. He supposed that's what those two had going on; a prosocial fool tripping over himself to please the leader. How... Quaint.

The offer stuck out to him. Vale could watch over him, or the next random cannibal could, who might not be as intelligent as the strange gore-crow and wouldn't realise that torturing Kane would get them nowhere. Torture didn't sound pleasant, to be honest, and Kane would like to avoid that.

"I guess we're a team, then," Kane relented, shrugging a shoulder non-committally.