Silver Creek when you take the king's shilling

He was making his way around the borders, marking and remarking, when the howl drew his head up. Coincidentally it wasn't very far ahead of his current path, which he enjoyed. He didn't have to completely skip areas now, just increase his pace. He smirked to himself as if that had been his plan all along, and started to move faster. He paused only to mark areas only the way breifly, not wanting to wolf to sit too long on the border and get curious or reckless.

All in all, he arrived in what he considered good time though he noticed that he had managed to arrive behind another member of the pack. His ears strained to catch Skylaris's words and he realized she'd only just arrived. His eyes flew first to her large belly, then the open space her leg formely occupied. His eyes narrowed on her and he sighed to himself, irratated that she'd come all this way pregnant and...well not injured, but still not fully recovered.

Her pregnancy had been a surprise, even an unwelcome surprise, but it wasn't something that he faulted her for. Traveling away from the pack could be argued as foolish, whatever, but her intentions had been good. She hadn't expected so many wolves to behave like literal shit. Heston, plainly, didn't either. It had shocked and appalled him to hear the story of her leg, much less that of her pregnancy. He'd like to tear the legs, and other more tender parts, off the wolf who had done it to her. Not only for her sake, but also simply to keep the male from walking, reproducing or hurting someone else again. He felt that they could manage though, as worried as the idea made him.

He walked over to stand closer to Skylaris, allowing his expression to fall back into neutral. He glanced once at her with a stern expression, as if to question why she was out here doing this, but he wasn't about to discuss it with her in front of a stranger. Not only would it be embarrassing for her and rude, but it would make the pack look like it bickered within. His irritation at Skylaris was born only out of concern. He stood near her side, tail raised up over his back and head held high.

He didn't need to tell the man that he was an alpha here, it was written all over his body language. "She stole the words from my mouth, it seems. I'd be interested to know that as well." He commented, nodding once to greet the man.