Blacktail Deer Plateau oh, say you want my love tonight

The soft shape turns rigid as he tumbles over it, sprawling, but in one fluid reactionary movement the wolf spurns all contact and rises against him, chunks of snow erupting around the pair. A dizzying flurry of icy flakes careen around him as Tuvak extricates himself of the tangle.

The stranger's foreign shout feels volatile in his ears; he bares his teeth against the tone of it - recoiling further as the stranger shouts at him in stunted common tongue. He has never been yelled at for anything in his life! It is a shocking experience that does not mesh with the "alpha's son" image Tuvak clings to; he forgets that here, he is nobody, he is nothing.

I didn't do anything! He rallies defiantly and postures, ignoring the stinging of bruised tissue where they had collided. What the hell, I didn't see you! That makes it your fault, dummy.