Ouroboros Spine up with the trees

Flustered again! He was not quite sure he was ready to present the pelt to her in company! Did the man mean to make a spectacle of him? But it was not truly in his nature to think such things of other men, so he decided to trust Kannoyak after all.

He had other things on his mind, soon enough.

"Have you been here long?" he asked, trying to gauge the man's position in the lives of the moon wolves. He was a good friend of moonwoman's, but he didn't know Callyope? It seemed a little odd, albeit not in any way that left the clueless man suspicious. "I am new to the area — I could use a friend to show me around."

For even if they did end up adversaries, the herald found himself hoping they might still be more. He liked the cotton grass hunter.