Bramblepoint make a wrong thing right

"You almost gave me a heart-attack!" Birk exclaimed in response to the apology from the person, who had appeared in a form of a dark shadow, almost out of nowhere. He had got startled and made a little jump even, which he was not proud of. It had hurt his "tough man of the North" ego a little to be scared by a fellow wolf.

The second statement came as total news to him. He sat down and looked around curiously, as if a bunch of rogue wolves were to jump out of the bushes any moment and kick his ass. When that did not happen, he tried to recall, if he had trespassed any heavily scented invisible line, upon entering here, but nothing of the like came to his mind. "No, not that I know of," he shrugged. "Is there a pack running around that I should be aware of?"