Moonspear right there out on the deck

"Easy!" Kindle huffed when his ear was pulled, but he offered no retaliation, taking it all in stride aside from the automatic verbal complaint. He shuffled along with the young leader as she directed them, comfortable in his role as beast of burden.

"Well, we got a Haedwig here," he replied, wondering to himself what the girl could want with their old woman. But that was hardly the most pressing thing — at least according to Kinusi, he thought.

"I can help fetch and chew some meat once we get her settled," he said, "But me or your dad oughta stay with you while you tend her. Sometimes wolves wake up fightin', y'know?"

He thought of something, then.

"Might oughta fetch Haedwig, too. Maybe she can tell us if lil Europia's the right sort to keep around here."

He'd been more open out on his own. Now that they had a pack — a village, as Katmai and the rest seemed to say — and a territory, Kindle was more defensive.