Wapun Meadow You burn too bright, you know you'll never last.

She says nothing. Not a single sound is uttered in his direction, not even the hint of a growl. Talion blinks, confused, but does not lift his head to investigate why the female hasn't reacted the way he initially expected.

Instead of slacking her teeth at his ear or even parting her jaws in a snarl, the ashen wolfess does something entirely unexpected: she pushed her kill toward him. Talion lifted his pale eyes then, tentatively raising his head to glance up at the she-wolf's lower limbs and chest, then back to the broken body of the dead rabbit.

"No," the young Roux-Abrhen said softly, shaking his head as he took a swift stride backward. "You took its life, it is yours to keep."