Chapter 76 Wink

• I got up and got a glass of water from the sink in my room. I looked at myself in the mirror above it. I didn't really look like most of the Vin-Ta I'd met. I'd always wished I looked like my father, handsome, with black hair and a muscular build. I was shorter, not very muscular and had brown hair. I had a small patch of sparse hair in the center of my chest. It always seemed lonely to me. I remembered what Dave had said, 'If a very pretty girl thought you were hot, you wouldn't get mad'. Dave didn't say 'if a girl thought you were hot'. He used the words 'very pretty'. "Are you very pretty? I asked the guy in the mirror. 'Heck, no! he replied. 'I'm a manly man! A lumberjack!' I almost laughed at that. I had been told I was handsome by my mother, but did that mean anything?
• I heard voices outside my door, right before the door opened. It had to be my roommate. I dreaded meeting him. Sharing a room had been my father's idea and Alpha George agreed with him. The Alpha said I wouldn't learn to fit in if I was locked in a room by myself.
• "And don't forget you are pack! Have you ever heard of a pack person who was a loner? You need other people, even if they are humans."