Arrow Lake Gimmie your face!

He didn't answer her question. When he spoke, he didn't seem to be talking to her at all. Turq's ears flicked backward at the indirect insult and an indignant, "Hey," escaped her. "It was an accident, like I told you. What's your problem?"

Yet he seemed determined to ignore her. Turquoise watched as he scratched at the ground, then circled a few times and flopped down. Another wolf might have let him alone and went on her way. Yet his blatant ignorance of her sort of pissed her off. She was higher up on the food chain, after all.

"You know, I could hurt you," she said loudly, coming no closer yet. "On purpose," she clarified, to differentiate from the accidental tripping.