with your sharp teeth

Perturbed. She did not know what he meant, only that he had a question. As ever, Tonravik would tell him what she knew. "One brought to us a poisoned rabbit." Would that be... what was the word... perturbing? She watched his face for reaction (to gain the meaning behind his word). "You have cubs." This she knew, from their last meeting, and it betrayed the fact that she in fact cared for his wellbeing, and the wellbeing of his cubs. Tonravik looked out for Tartok; he would always be this, to her.

So she wanted him well and warned, and also, to gain intel. But there was nothing to gain here. Strange they would cross a river and exhaust themselves to be a nuisance as opposed to traveling some miles to here. Tonravik could not understand it...

She only imagined they wanted the Spine. It was the only explanation. Well, they would die before that happened.