Firefly Glen The Clouds Burst

He turned his head and squinted off in the direction of the (not so) Sleeping Dragon, then pointed his nose at the slightly off-color cloud that could be seen through the patchwork of standard ones.  Over there.  It's pretty far I guess.  But it just sits there.  If it blows over here it dumps chunks of.. Stuff. I don't know.  Not snow.  Like he knew what volcanic ash was, this dork didn't know what a proper relationship was supposed to be, as if he'd know what volcanic ash was.

Yep, and there was the realization that putting more effort into a rabbit was probably worth doing more here than other places.  The world was screwed and they were all trapped here until it got back on the rails again, Uh huh.  It's got all the packs bent out of whack, too. They're getting all pissed at other people just existing, now.  Seriously.  It was totally better if they just left him alone.  If not being able to hunt one territory a day's travel away from their home was gonna kill their pack and it wasn't even going to provide enough food for all of them, then that pack had way bigger, more important issues than could be solved by Mal & Co. not existing.  Even if the "Co" was starting to be a bit questionable again.  Mal just had to get abandoned again, didn't he? That was his calling in life.

Anyway.  Back to the rabbit.  He eyed the hole he'd dug out, then looked over to the first hole, then scanned around before finally ending looking at the other guy, I mean it's gotta be in there somewhere.  Unless there's another entrance neither of us can see from here. Any there?  If he looked around, that'd be when Mal would get to make a more-than-cursory examination of the guy's attitude and behavior or whatever.  The lack of size difference between them still had Mal thinking that if this dude tried any funny business that he could take him, but at least right now he hadn't outright promised to share whatever he caught.  It was still easy to cut his losses and go back home if he thought something was off.