King Elk Forest the wrong name

Mato’s umbra ears cupped forth as the stranger did not, directly, answer his question, but he supposes that wishing to hear more was a start, however discouraging. Still, the druid would give him more information to mull over, if that was what he wanted. “We are not a traditional pack here, adhering to a hierarchy where high rank is rewarded by skill alone and culls out leader favoritism. Beneath leadership sit the wolves who have earned their mastery. Beneath them, those who have earned their specialty, then those who hold a basic trade, the apprentices and then those who bear no trade at all at it’s lowest.” He has yet to figure out where children factor into that hierarchy aside from the apprentices but as they have no children among their foundling ranks and he does not think about children because there are no mated pairs ( and on a personal level he is still yet too young to conceive ) he is in no real rush to factor if their birth gives them a higher standing than the Núro or not; and eventually he would think of some way to cull favoritism for leadership as well; perhaps if they wish to become leaders they, too, must pass some sort of trial ( but now was hardly the time to think of such things! ). In Morwinyon’s mind Tindómë operated very simply and hoped that in practice it would work as seamless as it appeared to work in theory. It is here that Mato gives pause, allowing the break down of the tiers and how they work to sink in, unsure whether this stranger has actual interest or not.