Blacktail Deer Plateau There's no kingdom to come [challenge]

When the howl rang out over the land, Aningan’s ears perked; this was not the first challenger to meet him and he doubted it to be his last. It was a curious thing, how wolves came and went, challenged or remained at peace with their place. Whilst the boy still believed the plateau to be his home and the pack his family, he found himself wondering as of late if his place there was truly meant to be—after all, the only reason for his own challenge had been to hold the reins until Caiaphas returned. But the woman had come and gone again, shooed away by those that he still could not believe would send her away.

No matter, Aningan loosed a sigh—a rare sound to leave his lips, indeed!—and sought out the challenger, who he met with a question in his gaze: why you?