what's so cool about buffalo, anyways?

Azure shook his head, rejecting the yearling's explanation with a sharp tsk between his teeth. "It does not sound like he is putting you first at all." He argued, as gently as he could manage (which wasn't very gentle.) "If he is truly your protector - the one you trust to defend you should pirates come to claim you, even - then it is his responsibility to keep himself whole and capable of doing that job. What benefit does he gain from going after a young bison, when he could take down a doe with much more ease and less risk?" Every hunt of course came with a risk, but no intelligent hunter went after prey that could overpower them without the backup of a team or a pack.

"Is it just you, him, and your father? No pack to support you?" A family band of roaming loners was not uncommon in these lands, though it did bring extra trouble to a group of wolves who were now forced to support too many mouths with not enough manpower. To feed the healers required more meat, risking the hunters further and straining the same healers to keep them in hunting shape. Replace either of the vital professions with wolves who preferred to craft or to explore, and a family would quickly find themselves lacking in the necessary talents to provide for themselves.

"Speech"