Sawtooth Spire wrong side of the tracks

I'm assuming he's hidden?!?!?! LMK IF IM WRONG

As her son loosed his cries, the mother wrinkled her muzzle, all the more angry at the other for disturbing the peace. Whoever it was. The meals had always been within reach, and never so far that she had to fully step out for them and leave her children to any number of dangers. The only time the woman would depart from the cubs was to drink from a nearby stream that was slow and quiet, rolling near enough to the rocky den that should there be danger, she could meet it.

The mother ignored her wailing babe. Instead of waiting for the danger, she would meet it. The alpha female did not think it could be Iqniq or Nanuk—rather, if she ever would think it to be a pack mate, she believed it to be the mischievous Echelon. And even with that thought, she was prepared to beat the offender into not making the same error.

Her growls quieted for but a moment as she pushed her cubs into the back-corner of the den, far from the entrance and in the shadows. The alpha female then turned to the mouth of the den, moving out only so far as her shoulders but keeping the rest of her body inside. Her mate blended in well with the thick shrubbery, and so he was not spotted even as she stared. It was then the mother howled for him, moving backward so that the entirety of her was shrouded in the mouth of the den. Tonravik peered over her shoulder to note the position of her babes, lest she needed to adjust them again in the hidden depths of their whelping den.