Silvertip Mountain So you embrace them in the hopes that you'll survive

Niita held in a grimace. So maybe they had seemed kind of brutal on the border, what with threatening to eat him. Bygones, right? Instead she raised her proudly, ready to defend Silvertip. "We are. We just do what we have to do, so we can survive." 

"Nah, you should eat it." Niita assured him. With the pups gone it wasn't necessary to take kills to the den, hence why she ate the hedgehog herself. "I suppose I was, I couldn't hunt for awhile."