Sun Mote Copse Think I'll slip on down to the oasis

Always time, he said, though jokingly.  He imagined because she'd joined up here she was probably ready to settle in and enjoy the pack for a while, like he was.  She was good looking - probably had a fair number looking to settle with her.  He thought of Tegan, then dismissed it.  She looked smart - probably a few more years before he'd be ready for a girl like her, if he was anything like his old uncle.

Cheering, huh? I'm no professional, but I think I can set the scene alright.  He did enjoy a good boast about his own younger stupidity.  This one Fin wasn't along for, though I'm sure she'd be sorry to know she missed it.  Was me and my buddy Hawkin, not even a year on and already raising all sorts of hell.  Hawkin had always been more reckless, which... yeah.  Anyway.

We'd been havin a little sport with a moose, as usual, but managed to shake it and come high-tailing back to the pack.  On the way, we crossed paths with a bear and her cubs.  Normally we wouldn't bother them, but turns out, we hadn't quite shaken that moose quite as well as we thought.  He grinned at the memory.  Shoulda seen Hawkin's face when that thing charged through there, and that bear bellowed back.  Thought maybe he'd gone and shit himself.  Me, I saw the opportunity and used it to nab that nice, fat rabbit on my way through.  She nearly took my head off as I passed, but don't think I've ever had a better meal.

It was more or less true, though sometimes as he got older memory and story tended to mix until even he didn't know what was tale and what was honest.  Luckily most of the time it didn't really matter.  Only Finley could really call him on any of it.