what I wouldn't give

Apparently he wasn't the only one with thoughts of feeding the pack on their minds. A familiar form moved close to him, and his lips twitched, his muzzle wrinkled in reaction to the dull sort of pain that the girl's appearance brought him as he was reminded of just who had been this girl's teacher before he'd left Imperium. One of the Armada brats Daegmar had been training - she'd grown up well. Daegmar would have been proud of - well no, actually, probably not. Daegmar was hard to impress anyway and the girl was as much a slave as he was.

A voice dragged him out of his reverie, and he shot a silent snarl at the woman who'd appeared next. What was she doing yakking around prey? She was going to scare them off. Oh he recognized her too. She'd been a big-mouthed yearling who had thought she was pretty hot stuff last he remembered. Didn't look like a whole lot had changed in the pack. Armadas and Destructions everywhere. Even the third wolf to appear fit into that category, Sirius being another of Daegmar's child soldiers. He glowered at her, but she had been blessedly silent.

Well, they could stand around staring at each other all day or someone could take charge. His heavy tail jerked behind him in irritated motions as Ve leaned over on his back to bat at it like a cat. He was a slave - he couldn't call any shots. But he was also the most experienced hunter there. he could play obedient-little-slave and stay subservient... or he could actually get a damned elk.

He was getting the fucking elk.

He jerked his head irritably at the three, gesturing them closer, and - scraping a small area to dirt - he began to doodle in the dirt. A big circle with horns - an elk. A little circle with horns next to it. Baby elk. Shut up he knew female elk and baby elk didn't have horns. It was a... metaphor or some shit like that. Four dots... he gestured at each of them as he made the dots to indicate who was who. Scraped lines from two dots - Integra and Sirius - to the elk mama. Two more lines - Hati and Mercy - to the elk calf. Then his paw obliterated the elk calf's circle. Got it? He glared around at them. If they didn't get it things were going to get very, very interesting when he gave the signal to go...