Clicking his tongue with a slick smile.
The crows meant something else to the wolf. Tiarnán rarely saw such a large flock of them. To think that they swelled in such a manner because of passing strangers was ridiculous; even the youth could tell there was something grander here. A pack, perhaps. He spent the early evening seeking out tell-tale scents without reprieve. Spring was just coming alive in this area and so it wasn't as dire a time as winter, but the boy still wished to find a place to settle. The great trees of the mountains called to him, urging him closer with their familiarity. He was eager, too eager, and inevitably was drawn away from his quest to find the border's edge when a field of fresh flowers came in to view. Some were mere buds, others a glorious array of tiny petals and bright scents. He happily bound towards them, gleeful and unaware of his trespass.
But, when he happened upon a dark male jumping around the Blacktail lands. With a narrowing of his brow, Kisu shot forward, a growl resting in his throat. "You are on my leaders' lands, and you need to leave." These were the only words Kisu spoke, his teeth baring in threat.
This suddenly changed though, when he spotted a rust, grey, brown, and white male on guard against a male of mostly black and chocolate.
The grey male moved to the direction of the two other wolves, making sure the wolf, who he assumed was part of the pack, saw him. Not taking the opposing male as a threat, the large beast simply moved next to the grey male and set himself on his haunches.
Tiarnán scurried back from the flowers, urged by instinct to bare his own teeth but resistant as well. It wasn't natural for him. He was no beast, but just a boy. A slender thing without the meaty muscle of the stranger who now accosted him. With an apparent scoff - for he was affronted by this strange behaviour - he lifted his head as if to challenge the ranked wolf. Behind him was a second creature, lurking, sitting, waiting.
"Cé go bhfuil tú?"
He pointedly asked, directing the question along with a coy cock of his muzzle at the two strangers. A moment later - before they could really respond, at least verbally - Tiarnan remembered his initial goal. He almost flattened himself in to the grass. Somehow, his head resisted - remaining poised and dominant while his body folded down. "Oh - wolves pacáiste! Tú i do chónaí anseo." His tail frisked behind him, and he let out a practised whine of desire. Bealtaine mé i mo chónaí anseo freisin?"
Finally he was all the way down, and his tail reluctantly tucked under his belly. He was the epitome of submission, although a fire still flared in his eyes. Something unquenchable - his true colours perhaps. Resistant even as he begged forgiveness.
Fury looked at his packmate. "He ask if he can join pack. He is no threat." He gave a small nod to the grey wolf beside him before turning toward the boy. "Ní mór glaoch ar ceannaire." Though these words were not pronounced perfectly, Fury hoped they would make sense to the strange wolf before them. He let out a howl calling for Hawkeye, knowing that she was the softer of the two leaders.
The rusted grey wolf darted his eyes sideways to look at the large male next to him, then rested them back on the male in front of them. His body stayed tense, unknowing if the young wolf before him was a threat.
When the grey wolf spoke, Kisu was shocked again. Yes, his voice was deep, but a strange accent touched the words he spoke. The rusted grey male nodded at what the brute beside him said, not removing his eyes from the dark juvenile.
Arriving, a "what the fuck?!" came from her mouth. The black female looked at the situation. Fury sitting casually, Kisu in a defensive stance, and a dark wolf in a submissive state in front of them.
Moving around the males, Hawkeye narrowed her brow. "What are you doing on my lands? I assume no one gave you permission." Her nostrils flared.
"Ní mór glaoch ar ceannaire." Ah, so these were not the wolves he should have been deferring to after all. With this knowledge Tiarnan appeared to change before their eyes; he rose up to his paws and uncurled his tail from his belly, waving it happily from side to side like a dumbstruck child. This did not last long. Barely had the boy begun to settle - and there she was, coming around the gathering with her belly swinging and a sharp-toothed fury. Tiarnan did not flinch until she was close, and only then did he buckle down again - seeing the woman's flagged tail and indignant, sharp gaze.
"Tá mé cairdiúil! Ciallaíonn mé aon dochar - le do thoil, a dhéanamh di calma síos." He hurriedly willed with a pleading tone, lowering partway before feeling an instinctual pull to run; but he did not. The boy fought his instincts and instead sat with his hindquarters shuddering with energy - fear, adrenaline, the urge to escape. He was no fighter and had not come here to pose a threat. With his gaze locked upon the dark figure's silhouette (and carefully avoiding her eyes), he spoke a bit louder. Hoping that the man who understood him (even in the bare sense that he did) would hear him now, and ease the tension.
"Tá brón orm! Le do thoil, tá mé cara. Cara!"
Clearly this was all a mistake. The dark boy felt his misgivings rise with the adrenaline in his bloodstream, while the fur of his spine prickled with uncertainty. The forest was beautiful here, beautiful, and it sang to him. Who were these creatures that didn't even know how to speak to the trees? With a sense of defeat already surfacing in the boy, he buckled and lay prone against the ground - against all his better judgement - and hoped that the angry woman would calm her tits see him for what he was. Young, stupid, and eager for a home.