Blacktail Deer Plateau No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder.

He is not interested in  backing down; this was a wolf who he did not know, who was more foreign than most of the recruits. She wasn't family - there was no blood affiliation there. Reyes had nothing against the girl or her sisters. This was a natural effort to advance in rank, to prove that he was capable and worthy, and he would posture as long as it took. 

She did not seem too eager to let go of her rank, though. She was older by a bit, and healthier, and bigger. In Tortuga he could have used combat and bloodshed to prove his point; he knew that was stupid here, because they were meant to be a pack - a crew - and harming your fellow wolf was detrimental to the whole. However, as she flashed her teeth he could not stop himself from doing the same; he even, boldly enough, lunged in to her space so as to test her mettle, snapping his teeth and enforcing his presence.