Arrow Lake Because all of us are normal and to be otherwise would make us outcasts

Neither Sadiq's foreign tongue nor his common words registered with Dragomir. What did register was the masculine pitch of his voice, identifying that this wasn't his mother scolding him, but someone else entirely. His wide ears scooped forward as he mulled this over, determining after a moment's thought that this wasn't Vonn either. Someone new, then. His dark blues searched the man's face, but when nothing much happened besides the words he didn't understand, Dragomir began to slink along his trail once more.

But he remained completely aware of the other wolf; one tall ear swung back and pinned itself on Sadiq, and the boy kept casting looks over his narrow shoulder as he set off, sniffing with less intensity now and swaying this way as he crossed multiple scent trails and lost track of them all. On one occasion he straightened up and looked back at Sadiq before quietly chattering at him. Abluh bah abah, said Dragomir with a pointed stare.