New Beginnings [Sirius]
The other man's thoughts unbeknownst to him, Dove shifted his paws, ignoring the yawning hunger in his belly that only seemed to expand once he'd noted it. His tail swayed behind him, brushing the tips of the unpicked grass beneath him. The grin that spread across the man's maw was enough to alarm Dove, although he didn't let it show. Nothing good ever came when his brother's grinned in such a way, their almost daily need to prove him lesser like a monster in its own right. He wondered, briefly, who they'd gotten such a beast from -- his father, who pushed all of his children to prove their worth, or was it something they'd been born with?
Deep in thought as he awaited the wolf's response, he pawed lightly at the soil until the smell of it, freshly churned, flowed into his nose. It smelled fertile, and as he took note of this and how it would aid in the herbs he preferred, the wolf spoke. Dove's twilight visage fell into a frown again. "Are these lands not unclaimed?" he asked, loud enough that the words would reach him. How unfortunate, he thought. "I hadn't scented a marker belying a claim," he said aloud. He kept his voice light, so as to keep any inflection in it that could be mistaken as a challenge; but if there was another way the creatures of this land claimed a territory as their own, this would be pertinent information to have.
Fully mistaking the man's words as an outright claim to the land, Dove gave him a shallow bow of his dome. "I do apologize if I've overstepped. I was unaware this home belonged to another at this time."
He walks. "He speaks." He thinks.
Time/Place: Midday; Lover's Mangrove, near the edge of the forest, closest to the water.
Notes: Dove has mistaken Sirius' words as a claim to Lover's Mangrove.