Wapun Meadow Apricot Wishes

The fellow claimed that he knew, what cold was, and the fact that he had survived the very harsh conditions was definitely another check mark in the mental list of the things that made this guy worth respecting. If he had survived, that also meant that he knew very well, what hunger meant, and how to deal with it. He did not really want to know, but for a moment he was tempted to ask, how often he had had to fend other hungry wolves off, from becoming their dinner. Or vice versa - had he ever been forced to eat the meat of the fellow kin, when there was absolutely nothing else to quench the hunger with. 

"So I see," Birk replied and yawned - not because he was bored (well, slightly), but because that one, simple action gave him the opportunity to think of another question. "I presume that you left the wonderful North for an easier life here?"