Tao gave a small smile. "Are there not rules that you have, that your pack has that you may not understand. You do not know the origins of, but they are the rules, the laws, and so you obey them. It's much the same." He'd come up with his own rules long ago, when he still had an overbrimming of emotions and thoughts still tying him to humanity. He groaned and pressed at the back of Riley's head a bit. "Feeding, marking, both are a permanent and private kind of connection. Few have ever bared my mark and I've bared even fewer. How many do you claim?" It wasn't a demand or even simple curiosity. Though he was very curious if it was only his mate if that.