Wapun Meadow With big meaningless eyes and tongues like fly paper

While he awaited the Starbone's arrival, Aventus gave his chew toy a kick and sent it tumbling through the grass. Ashlar might be able to smell it there, but Aventus wasn't about to admit to wasting his time on something as trivial as gnawing on bone. There was so much to do on a daily basis with Astara and Merrick indisposed, and only so many adults in Ursus to spread the duties among. No excuse for chewing on the job.

Ah, hello, he said pleasantly when Ashlar arrived, arranging himself into a stance that he thought conveyed some stately authority. In reality, he simply looked pompous. His ego was getting away with him a little in Avicus' absence, but no matter. Aventus, well, he was not born to be a humble creature, and he showed it in behaving as though he and Ashlar had not butted heads at any point.

Come, he bid, turning abruptly on his heel and heading north. Today we are going to talk of neighbours, and make a plan to survey them all. To his knowledge, there was Legion in a valley to the north. Easthollow was vanquished. Other packs may have cropped up in the interim, and Aventus wanted to begin a scouting mission to find them and take stock of them.

For future plans, you see.