Northstar Vale you're so dead meat

He didn't notice her there, too busy he was with the effort of climbing back up the hill.  If he would've seen her, he might have asked her to join in.  But instead he heaved himself back through the snowpath his portly body had carved on the way down and once he reached the top he pointed himself in a different direction, not even looking before he threw himself down the hill.  He skidded to a halt somewhere near the other wolf, lifted his head out of the snow and shook it from his eyes and it was then that he noticed her. 

Oh — ! he breathed, ears flattening.  Well, hello there!