A light on the dark side of me

Jace immediately froze once he spied the dark wolf across the river. His next course of action was to respectfully lower his ears and tail, not quite so low as to be between his hind legs, he hadn't done anything wrong after all.

"My apologies miss, I am a new member of the Silvertop Mountain pack and have been exploring for the better part of the day. My name is Jace and I had no intention of intruding your boundaries, just to get a cool drink and rest my paws. What might your name be?". Jace was locked in the female's stare, her two yellow eyes like pits of flame in the night. "She is a beautiful one, but dangerous.", Jace thought, he knew if he had been over the boundary this female would have no compunction about tearing his throat out and leaving him to the crows. Jace allowed himself an inward sigh of relief at his extraordinary luck.

Jace took a moment to raise his ears slightly and sniff what little breeze was blowing. He could neither hear or smell any other of her pack members so far, but he knew one howl from this striking female would bring the horde down on him and it would be a fight to the death to get back to his pack.