Finally an answer, and it perked Tao up right away. There had been no word of him, no prior permissions asked for or given. He was, for all intents and purposes, declaring war on his territory. Worse, the idiot seemed to not even realize it. Tao wondered what he did realize.
A quick lick to his lower lip and he folded his hands in his lap. "Passing through was it? You are aware that you needed to procure permission from, at the very least, the Master of this territory before you attempted to pass through at all? That the Master of this territory is a member of council and is responsible for everyone in what the humans call this and the next three counties?"
He smiled slowly then. He was betting the boy knew none of that, let alone that he had a chance for sanctuary if he'd bothered to ask for it in advance. Tao might have actually been able to help the idiot, except for the fact that he just walked into pack land. With his position still new, there was no way Riley could let something like this slide, even if Tao might have.
His eyes slid to the box on the desk. A replacement he was taking home with him, and suddenly had other possibilities. "Your name." It wasn't a request, or a question, and he brought eyes back up to the boy's. Pressing just slightly at his mind to see if it had been glamoured at all in the past, his own eyes went black as obsidian with small flashes of what looked almost like stars.