Stavanger Bay floating for life

A greeting (if you could call it that) and a rather brusque question tumbled out of the mouth of the wolf that approached him. This put Kaertok immediately on edge, but he managed to keep his hackles smoothed out for the time being. What do you have to offer? he asked. The Tartok wolf had no intention of joining up with just any lot of losers, and he wanted to know if this was a lot of losers so he could make a decision.

He knew that some wolves would blindly join any pack that would take them, but he was not one of those wolves. He was as proud as any Tartok, and he would seek out the strongest bunch and make his alliance with them. Of course, all that would be moot if they didn't deem him worthy.