Thunder Dome motion gives up on you in the end

he was impressed by the young wolf's guarded spirit - for he had clearly been tangling for a while with adversity - and so he found no fault in the barbed response. the loner seemed to realize too that he was outclassed, and smartly appeared adverse to any trouble stigmata might have brought to his battered helm. whatever mistakes this wolf might have made in his past, it looked to the warhound like he was learning - albeit the hard way. that made him worth something, for the moment.

stigmata was also quite judgemental, and had - on several occasions before - changed his mind about someone almost instantaneously.

"easy, wolf. i do not want your.. meal," he dared call it, remaining afar and reclining on his haunches, as if to prove his words true. "i came to see if you were worth saving," he delivered cryptically, while busying himself nonchalantly with smoothing down the fur of his bearded chest.