Swiftcurrent Creek survivor

Even through the thick accents, Bones had a way of describing a rather rough first year in an illuminating way. His ears flattened and twisted when the yearling described her mother. Apparently things were done differently among the 'pirates'. If a wolf was slated for torture in the north, it was made apparent. But Bones had been subjected to some sort of psychological and perhaps even psychical mistreatment.

I can't say it's been an easy life for you, then, he reprised, his eyes having glanced from her mouth to the glistening saliva on the grass, to her face again. Another idiom he hadn't seen before, but it seemed to emphasize her point. The male tilted his skull upwards.
Swiftcurrent should be enough to build up your pride? Dovev queried, knowing that perhaps what she needed was a base for feeling safe and unthreatened by her family, something he had learned a lot about.