Gyrfalcon's Keep fossil fire

Never had she been made to converse with a wolf who spoke a language other than her own. She understood the native tongue of Echo Cove as well as the common tongue all wolves seemed to possess... Or at least, she believed they did, until this one came along and disproved her. Tiarnan was an anomaly and a mystery. He didn't fit in with any of the Teekon Wilds wolves Jinx had met thus far, yet here he was all the same.

Finally, a word fell between them that both wolves could understand. She pricked up her ears, a bemused expression stealing across her face as she marvelled, "so you can speak in something other than tongues." She was much too dense to realize that Tiarnan actually couldn't understand her at all, because obviously everyone could understand her even if she couldn't understand them. Jinx failed to realize her words fell on ears that could not decipher her meaning.

"My name is Jinx." Her nape prickled as pride swept through her. "Alpha of Silvertip Mountain." After a pause, in which she appraised his fierce exterior with a mixture of trepidation regarding his craft and approval regarding his breed, she returned the question: "Your name?"