Neverwinter Forest You can hide underneath me and come out at night

Unsure if Hydra is/was going to remove the post since it was mentioned but it's still there so shrug emoji?? Vague about her, but since only one of the rest talked... XD

Mal, apparently, wasn't gonna get to get another word in edgewise.  He started to open his mouth when that white pipsqueak he'd ran into a few times before showed up. Uh.  Shouldn't she be like.. Off with her dumb family or something, not in the far side of his territory from where he'd last seen her?  And so he opened his mouth to say---!  And before he could make some snarky remark about how thieves are supposed to not get caught -- another, another, another goddamn wolf appeared.  Or something like that.  It didn't really matter, there were far too many of them.

Who the hell were all these twits who just popped out of thin air?  Jerks, obviously, from the fact that they traveled in a herd like deer, wandering away from wherever it was they must have originally existed. Probably needed the show of force to bully people since they weren't able to do it on their own or something.  Either way, it put Mal in quite the awkward position -- mostly because for once he was going to try to be a bit cunning about it all, but that plan trashed, time to wing it or something.  Not a stranger to the entire world being against him, Mal held his ground and kept his cool -- if they were going to contend they had the right to traipse right on in, then they had no right to say Mal couldn't hang out and do the same he had always did.  Sure, he was irritated, but neutral as someone who had a random gang of people bust into his campsite and raid his cooler could be.  He may be stupid but he wasn't a fool.

As the self-crowned most neglected child out of everyone he knew, Mal turned his judgement sharply to the brown guy -- if he was going to claim the wayward kids, then he should have actually like.. Been a responsible adult and not just ignoring them like they obviously had been up until ten seconds ago.  Surely, you should actually care to feed your children instead of forcing them to wander off to find things by chance in someone else's home. You're far from yours, wherever the hell it is.  And you should go back there, and leave Mal alone. Duh.  Hint hint and all that.  He was pretty sure there were no packs within at least a day's travel, so they were way out of their way in his eyes.