Redsand Canyon Couldn't look you in the eye

Glaukos had never been faced with anything so overtly frightening that he'd back away from the challenge of it; not to his knowledge anyway. His instinct was not to cower before the cat. He sensed the danger of it - the interest that glowed within its own wide eyes, and the predatory way it stared down the ridge to the pair of wolves - but his first thought was not to reverse course.

He wanted to confront it. Maybe to bark and scare it off. There were two wolves and only one (pretty large) cat — Glaukos might've been wrong to assume the odds were in favor of the auxillary pair, but that wouldn't stop him from believing it.

Kallik motioned and began to move back, never turning away from the creature. That was wise. It was also what Germanicus had said to do if they should ever cross paths with the beast. Glaukos rumbled a low sound which drew the cat's attention for a second, but he did not pull away in the same manner as Kallik.

No, he wasn't willing to admit defeat. That's all that running was: failure to confront one more obstacle. The cat was a threat he was determined to deal with himself, if Kallik was too afraid to do it himself.