Rising Sun Valley seven devils in your house

The silence of the landscape did not falter, but something in the air did shift. Glancing up, the regal noted the pale she-wolf, her stance seemingly misplaced in the barren and abandoned territory. Grim satisfaction pulled at him – a friend of Shadow’s, perhaps?
 
What the female might have taken for arrogance, the Peak Alpha displayed by instinct alone. His hefty paws carried him closer, and his form did not falter beneath her blazing gaze – if anything, his muscles tensed and his cool eyes studied her precariously. It was not until her murmured greeting was uttered did he allow himself to relax slightly – he did not recognize her scent, and so he could not determine if she was a lone wolf or not.
 
“To you as well,” he offered in return, his visage stoical as he regarded her carefully. He could not the similarities the woman had to his mate – a belly that had yet to fully return to normalcy after birth. A mother. He made no move to introduce himself just yet – untrusting and uncaring of other pack wolves. His own pack was his only family – that was the simple basis of what mother nature had intended for her lupine children. “Are you previously from the Bypass pack?”