Ouroboros Spine I had a violin somewhere, I was gonna play it all sarcastically

If Tonravik could read minds, if she had a sense of humor, she would be amused; as it was, she could not, and could not understand his meaning, could not understand anything he said. He was a wolf who was not so black and white. A wolf who thought easy was any part of it. To Tonravik, a dimwitted creature of instinct, Iqniq himself became simple. They could not understand one another in this. Perhaps they never would.

It was when he looked her in the eye that she sprang into action, before more words could be spoken and he could speak of things being "easy" to a woman who didn't know the meaning of the word. It was not easy. It was the way. It was natural. If he wanted cubs, he would challenge whoever might come to claim her, or he would claim her and be challenged. Choice took no part in that. Only strength. That was how leadership worked; strength.

So the leader dipped her crown and moved to throw her weight into him with her face pulled into a quiet snarl, fangs looking to grip (but not break) the skin near the apex of his shoulder and his weight and to force him down. His insubordination, and anyone's insubordination ever, would not be tolerated, regardless of reason. In dominance, there was no right and wrong. There was insubordination and subordinate behavior. There was no "reason" in it; it was hierarchy. The way of the wild. Inherent instinct he himself felt flaring within, and truth be told, that she did not wish to quell, but to draw out. These were strange thoughts that came to her, but she was unreceptive and still aggressive; this, after all, was the time where most definitively, the lead female let her place as lead be known.

If the man behaved himself, perhaps he might eventually earn himself some affection. But she was pissed, by his nearness, by his behavior, by his audacity to look her in the eye when she had wanted to be left alone to begin with, he had come for her and it was then, with all of her weight, she came back.