Blacktail Deer Plateau i should have worshipped her

Bah! said the boldest baby, standing broad-chested (hardly) and tall (right!) in front of a wolf that out-sized him by a multiple of twenty. He was brave. Whatever size he grew to, he would always be brave - and that was a problem.

Slowly, Pura lowered his head to the child's level, moving slowly closer. Without emitting a sound, he slicked back his ears and arranged his face into a silent, terrifying snarl, his face crinkling into an unpleasant leer around parted teeth.