with your sharp teeth

Tonravik nodded to his words. She owed nothing to the Plateau, but Lasher was still family; she trusted, one day, the earthen male might return to them. If not him, perhaps the kin of his she had smelled and he had spoken of. With nothing more to say, and Tonravik speaks: "The forest I found you," she decides, knowing he would be unwelcome at the borders as she would be at any others.

And it is then she nods in dismissal after he states he must go, and watches him for a moment before turning to depart with her mate. They, too, needed to return home.