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>Invite her to the pack.
The two girls sit in the café for a while longer. Clover glances at the former detective. The scarfed girl is staring down at her gloved hands with distant eyes. Clover looks away again. Now that they had spoken a little more, Scarfy did seem a bit more kind than she initially thought. “…Hey, Holm-Holm?”
“Hm?” Her eyes are brought back to the present.
“Do you… wanna join my pack?” The wolf-girl shyly holds a wolf-ear headband, fidgeting with it slightly. “y-you don’t have to if you don’t want to…”
The girl tilts her head, looking at the headband curiously. “What does ‘joining your pack’ mean? Becoming friends?”
Clover shakes her head. “Friends are a human thing. We’d get to be packmates instead!”
“…Okay?” Melissa blinks, still confused. “What’s the difference?”
“It’s... better.” Clover continues to fidget with the headband. “Packmates take care of each other, talk about whatever they want, and cheer each other up when they’re sad. We’re supposed to stick together, through thick and thin. And if we ever feel lonely, we howl at the moon, and know someone else is there on the other side, watching and howling at that same moon.”
“I see.” She puts a hand to her chin. “Do you have to put on the ears?”
“Of course!” The wolf-girl looks a little indignant. “Humans aren’t supposed to be packmates, only wolves are!”
“Don’t you have other packmates? I’m not that good of a person.”
Clover’s eyes turn away. “I… did for a bit.”
“…Oh.” The scarfed girl looks at her for a moment, then sighs, taking off her well-worn hat and putting it on the table. “Sure, Clover, I’ll join your pack.”
>> χ (M2 Charisma roll: 65 = Success) << (Convince her to join.)
“R-really?!” Clover looks back at her with shining eyes. “You actually want to join?!”
“It’s no big deal." She holds out her hand while looking away, a little embarrassed. "I just have to put on the ears, right?”
“Y-yeah!” Clover hands her the headband nervously. Was she really going to become a packmate?!
The girl stares down at the wolf-ears, considering it for a moment, before putting them on.
