"Marcus is my best buddy! He likes being near me, when everyone else is scared of me. He says 'doesn't matter what my people do, what matters is you keep your bloody voice down.' He has very sensitive ears, he says! And Lyra, well. Lyra is a bit sad. Her boyfriend tried to join up the other, bad clans, and she had to stop him the bad way, in the middle of the clan meeting. Marcus and I thought she went crazy, so we ran away. But usually she's quite nice, not scared of me like some of the others. And Long Fang is clan leader! Its supposed to mean you're the one who bites hardest! I think, anyway." She looked like she wanted to continue, but Marcus cleared his throat from behind her, and squatted next to her. "She hasn't been saying bad things about us, has she? Quite naive, she is."