Ouroboros Spine crooked but upright

She listened to what her aokkatti had to say with rapt attention. It would have seemed that these wolves of the plains were far more brash than what they had already encountered. Yet perhaps not she was deigned to reason; perhaps they were like the wolves of the glacier, who had been emotional and stupid in hindsight.

Still, she shared the same insight as Tonravik. Already there was the urge to depart from the Spine and go to instigate something with them, to antagonize them as they had antagonized their home. Her teeth clicked together sharply; she should have been there. Not dispatched to aid some other fledgling branch. Someone else could have done that, but she had been the one sent.

Again, she clicked her teeth together, a flash of yellowing canines that was much more meaningful and succinct; what were they going to do about them?