Wapun Meadow When you were here before

That's not very specific, Aventus noted, watching Arielle from his periphery. It felt wrong to be so disheveled when she was the one going through hell. He should be taking care of her, but he wasn't able to even take care of himself right now. Guilt gnawed at him and forced his attention back to the stranger.

Why should we take a chance on you? If Ursus wasn't so small, he would likely not have posed the question. He had no time for such vague introductions. They needed wolves, though, hunters to help when Arielle was out of commission with their... Spawn. He could not bring himself to think of them as his, even though they could belong to no one else. Not out of spite, but fear.