Luneshale Pass with fire and with blood

There was a shift in the haze, and suddenly a wolf stood there - as she had guessed, perfectly disguised in the gloom beneath sheltering rock. Disa wondered if he would be offended if she compared his coloring to a rattlesnake.

"You, " she replied, stopping and giving him a quick once-over. The desert really was teeming with large, strapping men; Disa was surprised that they had not come to blows in the time thay she had been here. "Thought we should get to know each other better."