Arrow Lake Eel in the Water and She-Wolf I'll Be

Talos lifted her eyes from the sandy riverbottom and puffed herself up with easy self-assurance. No, she replied quite readily to the inquiry of the stranger, almost convincingly and with unusual confidence for one her age, and putting effort into her enunciation for once to boot. She licked a few stray droplets of water from her whiskers before continuing. You obviously got me mistaken wi' someone else. Why're you here?

The stranger seemed friendly and interesting enough, Talos supposed as she looked the other wolf up and down, and more importantly she was someone new. Talos was quite heartily sick of the faces of her stupid brothers and interfering family in a lot of ways by now. And the sights and scents of most of her actual packmates were old stale news by now too. She couldn't even remember the last time someone with a completely fresh scent and face had shown up in her life. So Talos moved forward to meet the other's friendliness with her coal ears avidly cocked and slightly-silvered black tail tilted up past her rump and wagging eagerly. Normally, she'd have been tempted to be a lot ruder to this officious bitch and her assumptions, but for right now Talos was more interested in making sure this other wolf stuck around a little while and apprised her of a little of what might be going on in the wider world beyond Swiftcurrent's borders. Talos took a good long sniff of the other's scent as she speculated about where this stranger might have come from and what interesting adventures she might have to share.