Jade Fern Grove dad's on a hunting trip

This other boy was confusing Ikiaq more with everything he said. Vex was his name - which was short and sounded interesting and Ikiaq liked it - and this was his space, but... he was still destroying it. 

"Why would you want to destroy your own land?" he questioned, padding over to nudge a broken leaf of one of the victims of Vex's onslaught back upright. It stayed well enough, and Iki pressed the ground around it to be sure that its roots were firmly planted. 

A pout formed on his maw as the other boy went on. "I care," he pointed out, tilting his head to the side. "They're alive. They grow, like us, and they drink water and eat stuff in the ground. So I don't think we should hurt them for no reason." Plants were super important, Iki remembered. Other stuff - stuff that wolves ate - would eat the grass. Like deer and elk. Plus some of them could be used for medicines, which Ikiaq didn't quite understand, but he knew was important somehow.