Bearclaw Valley pack and forth

merrick let out his breath, nodded. "that is all i need." he would not call himself father; insofar as he was concerned, the grubs belonged to his raven, and she to him. and he to her, though these days the boy was not sure that she would ever welcome him again.
such thoughts perturbed and disappointed merrick; he sought to shake them off with a prickling of his bloodcream hackles. "ursus lives in them. your proximity to them ties you also to this place." if he could not muster affection for the young creatures, the bearwolf was assured that those in the pack would think differently. thus would avicus and aventus be protected, nourished by the land that fraser's blood had fed.