Blacktail Deer Plateau First Hunt

"Oh," he said simply. He didn't understand why or how she'd decided to pit pack wolves versus lone wolves in her head but he wasn't about to pick her apart for it. What did it matter to him?

Yet her failing logic compelled him to ask, "How can a lone wolf have a rank at all, since it doesn't even have a pack?" He was almost afraid of her answer, sensing that it wouldn't really satisfy him.