Porcupine Ridge A possible pack member

Farstep watched the exchange in silence, having satisfied himself with sniffing and posturing over Jolon. Taggarik's blatant dominance was unexpected, given his usual amiable behaviour, but also completely his right. Jolon was yet another male approaching a pack of majority males; no doubt his Alpha's behaviour would continue increasing in intensity with every male that arrived, for every additional male was a potential threat to his authority.

When Jolon growled from beneath Taggarik, Farstep responded much like his leaders: his hackles bristled in a threat response and he rumbled lowly as well. A pack wolf might have got away with grumbling at an overbearing display from an Alpha, but a lone wolf on a pack's borders had no rights at all, let alone the right to complain.