Kildeer Rest who's gonna show this stranger around?

He looked her over appreciatively as she stepped fully out of the trees. She had a nice, trim figure, on the smaller side but not without long, sweeping lines in all the right places. She gave her own explanation and then an introduction, to which Shale inclined his head, accepting it with grace.

"Hello, Xahi," he responded warmly. "My name is Shale. I'm from the Morningside pack; we live on the plains, just southwest of the glacier." Walking, it was a fairly significant journey, but he was certain there were no other packs between the two of them, which made them, in essence, neighbors.

Whether that was a friendly relationship or not remained to be seen; Shale hoped he could earn this woman's trust today, so that his family would have more friends this side of the mountains.

"You said you've only just moved?" Shale inquired, tilting his head curiously. "Where did you live before?" The scent markers indicated a tight-knit group of wolves, who, it seemed to him, had been together for quite some time. Shale wondered if the tensions in the flatlands had, like it had Morningside, led them to uproot and find a safer haven elsewhere.