Fox's Glade Naive thinking.

Upon approach the female changed her posture and the height of her tail, protraying dominance. Howl usually disliked when the wolves he came across asserted dominance on neutral territory, but her next statement made it understandable. Especially the way she phrased it, "my pack", made Howl believe that she was the alphess of this near by pack. Lone wolves could be seen as trouble for a pack and he didn't want to be protrayed as such trouble. He nodded his head to her for a moment but then resumed his neutral stance.

"I am awfully sorry Ma'am. I did not wish to make you feel uncomfortable with my proximity to your pack. I have no interest in starting any trouble for you or those within it." He stated politely. He thought about how this might be a pack he could join, but that wasn't really his intension either. He didn't know their was a pack near by in the first place.