Northstar Vale interstellar

Warbone, who consistently made poor decisions in regards to foraging relationships, thought that the easiest way into Indra's good graces, would be through her stomach. Small game was no easy feat for him, but he'd managed to round up a hare in a snowdrift, and was eager to bring it to Saena's burnished child— the only wolf he had ever offered his own catches to. Even the first bitch herself did not get the same luxury; an eventuality that would be reserved until she was carrying new life for Duskvale within her.

The rabbit dangled proudly from the cyclops' mouth, following a recent trail of Indra, before it began to mingle with the scents of Zephyr and Saena respectively. His pace quickened when he heard the cry, mistaking it for the vale's youngest member before he converged in on a scene he wasn't quite expecting: the first female oppressing an unfamiliar girl.

Warbone surged forward with noise meant to cow his subordinates, but only implore his companion. The child she meant to send away would surely die without their assistance, but it wasn't out of sentimentality that he sought to stave Saena's paw. "She can be Duskvale," he said softly after dropping his catch, standing near Saena's hip and giving her an affectionate nibble there. He remembered their recent frolic (although the writer has yet to respond to such a thread xD), and wasn't keen on dismantling the fragile beams of a relationship that had finally begun rising from the foundation they had already made together.

"A little bit of conditioning," he murmured, passing his eye over the spidery girl; "and she could be more faithful to us than any of them." Steered in the right direction, she would know to owe them her life; and such an emotion fostered in a child, was far stronger than it could ever be upon the mind of an adult already settled mostly in its ways. All wolves were made loyal, but children had a certain level of dependency that he sought now to exploit. There would always be other days to dispatch her, should she prove to be unable to conform.