So be it

"And does he agree?" Pump asked and left the antler she had been chewing under one of her fore-feet. The conversation was getting interesting and she was done with chewing for a while. "The kids stuff and everything else?" because that was the sole purpose of being a mate to someone - you wanted to reproduce - otherwise there was no point.

"In my old pack all kids that were not born to the leaders, were killed," she explained the matter. "... or, if they were lucky, cast out with their parents." Not very lucky, because that usually happened, when there weren't enough resources - there were no survivors and the parents usually returned after a while.

"Akhlut, being a young and strong male, will certainly want to continue and strengthen his bloodline..." she left the sentence unfinished, but added in her mind "... and not care for those, that weren't his own brood".