Neverwinter Forest don't you dare close your eyes

Things escalated quickly but FitzDutiful knew the right to Eshe's challenge as his own hackles raised and he turned his attention past the two males to the weak female. They had not formed a pack yet, they were not pack and were not family and therefore he had not trespassed. Borders from the mountainside were weak, pitiful, they could have belonged to a pack months ago for all the good they did. He knew not where this "pack" had come from but here borders that weak were punished, severely.

Let's backtrack for a moment to cover the events leading to this event.

The male with the female, the brown one, had begun to speak and FitzDutiful had started to relax when another male entered. It seemed as though this new one - multicoloured in brown and white - was the alpha to be as he mentioned another territory dividing theirs. True, up to a point. His guard had raised once again when the newcomer had entered, but one the conversation began he was relaxing. Slightly. He had been about to reply to both of them when the female piped up. From behind the two males no less. Her words, her actions made out she was to be the alpha but she was a weak pitiful thing whom Zaria would easily dispatch, pregnant as she was. She was no alpha.

However, now was the current time. His hackled had just raised and he made a visible effort to reduce them. "Your borders are weak; anyone would think they were months old not current." he said through gritted teeth, obviously restraining himself from adding any further menace into his tone. It was barely there, just skulking around the edges. They were three but he was a trained mercenary and he knew how to fight. He was pretty sure he could hold out long enough to retreat to the mountain. Did that female not realise he had to only howl and his pack of 12 strong would be here to slaughter them all?

His attention turned away from her to the two males - all of this had been a matter of seconds and there was no pause in his words from what he addressed to wanna-be-alpha to what he ceded to the male he knew was definitely alpha. He lowered himself ever so slightly, more than he had need to do as he addressed the darker male, Scimitar.

"This is fair land, but you live here for 12 cycles of the moon and tell me you wouldn't question a pack moving in to the land next door. I assume you are in the process of it's claim and I came to address the matter of the area where forest meets mountain. Any pups from either side of our borders deserve safety without the threat of a misstep meaning life. I come with a proposal that we both move our borders back from the meeting by the length of that wolf." His head motioned at Kieran, a medium sized wolf but on the larger side. "Then we neither fear the paw of the other overstepping their bounds." He looked to see how this news was taken before swiftly adding, "Once your pack has completely claimed these lands."

They hadn't yet. Ideally they wouldn't. There were plenty other forests in this world. They had no need to sit on his doorstep but he knew he could not stop them. The former counsellor within him had hoped for an agreeable visit but his guardian side cared nothing for that. He wanted them gone, he wanted a fight, he wanted to run them off while they were only three. But his best warrior was out of action for now, this pack had picked the perfect time.

None of these thoughts, the thoughts of death and destruction, were visible in his actions or his words. He would seem like an alpha ceding that the male before him was to be an alpha; but they both knew the forest wasn't theirs yet.