As the female paused in her steps, Sumayl did the same, ensuring that there was more than a good stretch of distance between them in the case that she ended up being hostile towards him. Sumayl hadn't ever had a female be hostile towards him before, but he acknowledged that there was a first time for everything and the fact that she had only just gulped down the scrape of meat he'd, too, been tracking down before he called out to her. It probably sounded like he was accusing her, though even if he'd been the owner of said scrap of meat it wasn't like he would want it back. She spun to face him, a growl rising from somewhere low in her body and penetrating the crisp autumn air between them. Sumayl's tail gave a low wag to communicate that he wasn't hostile. He was annoyed that she'd beaten him to his cheat but there was no sense on holding it against her. Besides, the truth of the fact likely was that she needed it much more desperately than he had. Sumayl was a skilled hunter and had been able to keep from surviving off of carcasses and scraps like some kind of scavenger. Not everyone, he guessed, was quite so
She yelled at him something about “finders, keepers” and Sumayl wondered how old she truly was. She looked like an adult but she could have just hit her year mark. He wasn't sure and he wasn't overly skilled at telling age just by appearance alone, except when it came to the younger children, obviously. “I'm way past my regurgitated meat days, don't worry.” Sumayl drew with a chuckle rumbling in his throat, and thinking about those days, regardless of how fuzzy they were caused an ache to shoot through his heart. His biological parents had been killed when he and his siblings had been only three months old by the forest fire that had ravaged their home and it was a painful memory better left repressed. “I doubt that you found a decent amount of meat in it,” Actually he was surprised that she found anything at all given how easy it'd been for the both of them to catch onto it. “I was wondering if you'd be interested in hunting something with me and then we can split the bounty?” She would have a meal and he would be have something to take back to the caches of his home.