Big Salmon Lake descended from the rift

"The same direction or the opposite," Birk replied, realizing that he had sounded utterly stupid, but not caring one bit about it. When it came to random strangers, he had learned that it rarely mattered, what first impression you made. In 9 cases out of 10 he either never met them again or, if he did there was a 50/50 chance that he would have forgotten their names and the circumstances under which they had met. 

"I might be wrong, but I think I have met someone, who smelled just like you," he then continued, having caught a whiff of the other wolf's particular scent and much to his amusement finding that, while he recalled the smell, he was almost 100% sure that he had never met this wolf before in his life. "I assume that there is more of you residing nearby?"