The Tangle VIII

The other man did not come too close.

He was deferential - or that is how Kigipigak read the way his figure retreated. He got a few steps before Kigipigak issued a triumphant little cough, and whether the stranger looked or not, his shoulders squared off to give him a powerful stance.

It was not a threat of violence - it might've been an invitation, either to a spar or to the hunt Kigipigak hoped to find within the tangle - but it was left for the stranger to decide which. Perhaps he would retreat in full which would leave Kigipigak to his own devices again.

No harm done.