Noctisardor Bypass Gundestrup

I need to work out timelines so bein' vague

Warlock was doing more patrols. He didn't feel like he was actually any good at it (let's be real, if conflict happened, he'd almost certainly get pwned) but he felt he needed to make sure that things were safe. Safe-ish. Whatever. He'd look around and be ready to call for Arbiter if he had to.

But apparently whoever it was lingering around the outside of the territory today wasn't exactly being stealthy about it. He heard the voice before he spotted who it came from, squinting at a blur between the trees where the forest reached out to one of the peaks. The words were unfamiliar. Were they even words or just random sounds? Add an echo and things got a little muddled. It would be clear as he got closer, maybe.

He wasn't a wolf who sung. He did his own thing, sure, but if people were out there being that loud were they even paying attention to the fact they were coming up on someone's territory? Warlock was still quite a ways off, so couldn't tell, calling out instead, Hello? He tried to look official as he trotted forward, trying to look confident. Did he actually look that way? Maybe. Maybe not. At heart he still felt like a child.