Blacktail Deer Plateau It ain't like midnight and cigarette smoke

short and nondescript but getting this up! @Osprey

As he had taken to doing, Dante made his way towards the spot he knew Osprey to have taken to staying (despite his offer and her lie of having found a den), a large grouse gripped in his jaws.  As he neared he dropped the prize, leaving it hopefully in plain sight and to be easily found.  Though he gave her space, she was still in this pack and therefore he felt responsible in part for her well-being.  As a friend alone he could have perhaps allowed her to fend for herself stubbornly, but as a friend and alpha he could not.

He had no desire to run across her though, and only partially for her sake.  He was miffed by her attempts, as he saw them, to cut ties and what it implied about her thoughts towards her packmates (and himself).  It would be better if he gave himself distance, space to cool down and time for her to get over whatever it was that had her pulling away.  He didn't trust himself to act all that well at the moment, especially with everything else that seemed to be flooding him at once.