Sun Mote Copse I'm gonna be a mighty king so enemies - beware!

Elfie's critical period of fear was still to come, therefore at this point in life he still considered all wolves his friends. Though, when he looked up to see, who had spoken to him, there was a bit of a suspicion and wariness in his gaze, as he scrutinized the unfamiliar yearling up and down through narrowed eyes.

When the first inspection was done, the boy snorted, told the deer-hide to stay, where it was, and trotted over to the other boy to carry out the second, close-up inspection. He was genuinely curious about the stranger, but already his little, evil-mastermind mind was hatching up a plan of, where and how to best sink his tiny set of piranha teeth. To the outward world, however, he appeared to be the innocence himself.