Yeah, usually. A lot of packs assemble out of unrelated members though. [In the past he would have said most packs, before he found out how... unorthodox... Steel and the Movement were. He droops at the thought and snuggles her more.]

That... kind of sounds like how I grew up. Tines can't be too close to each other, so the grown-ups just talked to me from the balconies and never came down. But... at least I had people to talk to.

[He presses the head up into her hand and makes a deliberate comforting buzz, like a purring cat.]