a marmot darted down beneath the lip of the earth, and buffalo followed happily, a killing lust upon him. so intent was he upon his quarry that he did not stop to admire the eerie land below the rock, nor did he notice the dark-furred wolf who stood perhaps lost in memory in a shaft of sunlight.
the wolf hooted as his teeth closed on the small leg of the mammal; buffalo stretched it with its muzzle, shoving its small head against the ground with one broad forepaw. when he had sufficiently wounded the animal enough, the sadist leapt forward, swinging the hapless creature hard against the unyielding bole of one earthbound tree, once, twice, until blood hung in amber droplets and fell from the air to dapple his maddened grin and the flick of his ears. 
only then did buffalo glance up toward the other wolf; his eyes fixed upon the interloper with a flat glitter. swinging the nearly headless, still twitching carcass up around his shoulders, buffalo approached confidently. "sorry you had to see that."

at times it annoyed buffalo when others did not respond to his often atrocious antics, but this was not one of those times. "who did you piss off, man?" the pale creature chuckled, drinking in the scars along the other's face and the neutral expression in the banked-fire glow of the black wolf's eyes. "not that you don't wear them well," buffalo added, stepping beyond the stranger and settling to chew absent-mindedly at his scarf.
until the head finally separated from the ill-abused body with a sinewy snap and a little thud when gravity carried it to the ground, where it came to rest beside the stranger's forepaw. "fuck's sake," the mad thing scoffed in fake frustration., sweeping his mismatched eyes between the other wolf and the severed head. "you gonna eat that?"