Hideaway Strath Confined in mountain halls, we got too close to the flame.

Right there, directly in his path and practically nose-to-nose with him, stood a beast of a wolf. Sundance sucked in a breath - gasp! - and, surprised at the sudden proximity of this silent ghost, scrambled aside with his tail tucked close to his rear in automatic submission. Platinum ears folded back and he slunk away outwith her reach, keen to place greater distance between his own lean frame and the stranger's solid stature should she decide to turn on him with fangs.

"Looking for someone," he answered promptly, aware only at the sound of the titan's voice that she was, in fact, female - and he hoped she couldn't read minds to unearth his inaccurate assumption of her sex. "I used to live here," he carried on in explanation, visibly uncomfortable beneath her scrutinizing stare, "a year ago - my pack moved on when the earth shook and the mountains crumbled."