Moonsong Glacier you have walked this path since your birth

Somehow, Dutch hadn't thought so. Fallen Sun seemed as capable as any wolf of surviving on his own — but to protect a pack with vulnerable members was more challenging. The option of retreat was all but taken away. He wished he could talk strategy. That he could tell the man not to take risks, and that the purpose of a fight was not to win, but to escape with as few injuries as possible. Perhaps the man knew this, but perhaps he did not.

"We will play a game," be said, bowing and slapping the ground with his paws in demonstration. "I will try to pass you. You will stop me."

In another movement that was more demonstrative than practical, he bluffed forward in a half-hearted lunge. If Fallen Sun seemed to understand his purpose, they would move forward.