Ravensblood Forest Just within Reach

"A funny thing, don't you think?" Pump mused, while a crooked grin played in her facial features. It did seem strange to have any standards at all, if you were the loner begging for a safe place to stay and be fed. Had the winter been so harsh that joining a pack would have been a question of life and death - the wolf-dog would have been humbler. "But old habits die hard and it's not easy to change the views of the ways you have been used to living."

"Is it his job?" she had a question in return. She didn't know for sure, because it seemed to her that the roles of alphas were different from place to place.