Haunted Wood we set fires in the snow.

It burns him to be given the chance to be at the top in this way. To be looked at and given recognition by the girl who had murdered the man he wanted to hear it from. Yet he wasn't dumb, he'd learned his lesson in impulsivity and what happens when you don't think things through so what he says instead is this "I won't stay in mine either. Never planned to submit to anyone in the long term. I'm not going to challenge you...if you do the same favor I was going to hand you. Make me your equal. No more fighting against each other. We can be a team" the words were risky in themselves but he stared her down. It didn't matter to him whether she accepted it or not because he had made it clear, in time he would be at the top of this pack where he belonged.