The Tangle tangled

Eljay startled when another wolf approached, having been so lost in thoughts he hadn't seen her coming at all. He went through a rollercoaster of emotions and postures — defensive, various degrees of submissive, and eventually landed back on neutral when he relaised that the stranger looked pretty neutral.

An ear cupped towards her and he greeted with a bashful smile, "Uhm, hi..." She asked him if he was looking for something and he shook his head at first, then realised he was looking for something and added, "I'm uhm, I'm trying to join this pack, and — and they want me to prove myself first, so... Uhm, I thought if I found something that could be hunted, then maybe..." He glanced over the barren lands of the tangle and sighed. "... But I don't see anything here..."