Sawtooth Spire Pita Republic

No worries!

Iqniq informed him of the name's meaning and Wicked wasn't quite sure what to say about that. Anyway, the Alpha and Beta continued conversing back and forth before settling on an actual moniker: Kanik. It was evidently Inuktitut (or possibly Inuit) for frost. Rather than share an opinion again, Wicked looked to Nanuk to see if she thought it worked. She threw another joke in there, then assented. So he would be Wicked, also known as Kanik.

He considered himself more fiery than frosty but he wasn't about to raise a fuss. He really would have been fine with Ittukanak, honestly, or even Pita. Anything was better than his former name, which he'd shed like snakeskin as soon as he'd left behind the decimation of his birth pack. It was actually kind of ironic that he would only drop it even as everyone who held it against him ceased to exist.

The yearling forced himself to focus on the present, not the past. "Hi, I'm Kanik," he joked, showing the leaders his acceptance of the alias, "but you can call me Frosty the Snowman." He didn't feel very confident in his ability to joke around with these two yet, so more soberly he asked Iqniq in particular, "You mentioned exploring outside the borders. Is that common? Leaving the territory?"