shuck

He couldn't imagine what this stranger would want with one of their children, but whatever it was, Dante didn't like it. He softened none in the face of her manners and, if anything, grew more unfriendly as she continued. Even if she was a friend to Casmir, she should know better than to approach lands unannounced. She could have called for him by name from neutral ground. This he was not having. She bore pack scent and therefore was not likely a recruitment possibility. The only thing that would have made her proximity permissible.

"If you have a name to give me, and a name to whom I should deliver it, I can tell them that you were here. But you need to leave." His stance told that he would not be swayed... Already he itched to push her back.