Swiftcurrent Creek playing house

Ferdie continued his digging widening the main place to sleep though his chest pained him, begging him to stop ”The beta... well I just... Ferdie huffed, then regretted the heavy expansion of air in his chest.. ”I was an alpha once, and I just have sort of sense about it, but no affirmative proof to give to our alpha about it. All I can do is wait and be where I need to be when something happens”

Ferdie began kicking away the extra dirt Bazi sent his way out the entrance.
”I doubt there is a whole pack skirting our borders, and as a pack we are not weak. So far we have managed every threat to our borders and snuffed it out. I have not yet seen an intruder cause alarm for more then one or two of us at a time and none has made it to far into the pack land.” Ferdie let that sink in then continued "it seems you have been able to interact with other packs, Perhaps it is they who are weak, if wolves can skirt in and out unnoticed or unscathed. But that is why I worry for you Mi’dear one day a visit may not go so well”

Ferdie looked around the den impressed with the work thus far, and the day was getting late however at this rate they might be done before nightfall. With renewed vigour he continued pawing away at the dirt until he came to a large rock it was half way up the wall he had created with his own two paws and about as long as he was, Ferdie began digging op the top of it hopping to dislodge it. He found the top of the rock to be rather flat and smooth the further in he dug the larger the rock was. There was no way to remove it. So Ferdie set to clearing the ground above it a little perhaps they could use this rock as a table for drying Bazi’s furs instead of the ground. Grunting with effort and covered in sweat Ferdie asked her to elaborate. Keeping his large bulk between Bazi and the rock he dug out, he wanted to surprise her with it.

”Mi’dear tell me about your visits outside the pack. I have not been out there but once.” He had hoped she'd think about taking him with her, but then he was just a den mate and perhaps she didn't even think of him as a friend, to that end he would not even ask nor insinuate that was something he even thought of.