Boartusk Heights the broken one

She introduced herself as Nyra. There was something vaguely familiar about her, the coywolf realised when he looked at her and heard her name. However, Charles honestly remembered few wolves — mostly Leta and Kaito, and of course Valette — from Easthollow, and he had also both repressed and reshaped a lot of his Easthollow memories. His brain didn't really get to any conclusions while she introduced her pack as the Saints of the Dying Light. How ominous. Charles thought it sounded a little edgy, but he also had come to realise that he was perhaps not the cool dude he liked to think himself, so maybe edgy would fit him just fine.

I haven't heard of you, Charles said. His words were matter-of-factly, and honestly it wasn't like he was well-travelled that he should know these things, but there was a silent challenge in them. Perhaps if he'd been in Firefly Glen's inner circle he'd know about the Saints, but as things were he did not.

The only thing that stuck was that wolves were working towards trades. Charles had never heard of trades. His trades were:
— being a cool dude™
— collecting sticks
— doing bad things
— making others feel shit about themselves so he could feel a semblance of self-respect for a fleeting moment
(the latter two exemplified in his previous statement)

So he just asked, What trades are there? What do... He struggled to remember the right word, spiritlist? What's it mean? Charles hated feeling dumb, but he couldn't contain his curiosity. The moment he said it he regretted asking at all, though. Pretending was so much easier than actually trying to figure anything out.

She then said that if those were not deterrents (Charles had no idea what the word meant, but was ok enough able to tell from context), he was 'welcome to the hunt'. Ironic, considering he was such a shit hunter. Okay, he agreed simply again. Yes, I will come. Do you have food? It was a bold question, he realised, but the coywolf's hunger was becoming more and more bothersome; he could really do with some food in his stomach.