he stands not alone

Fading this out. Hope you don't mind.

Akhlut twitched his ears forward to listen to what Kisu had to say. The older wolf was not a fount of knowledge about the area but what he did know was good and solid information that the swarthy Alpha was pleased to receive. Akhlut's mood lightened and the pair of males spent a length of time in conversation before Akhlut retired to higher ground, leaving the pale wolf his piglet with no hard feelings for having been bested at the hunt. The disgruntled squeals of the father boar followed the yearling Alpha up to the top of the Ridge, and he knew that they would encounter one another again--he could only hope that it was the swine that would lose their next battle, and not himself.