What greeting had Eivind expected? For the young man to throw his arms around him and act like he'd been the missing piece to his life? As far as Eivind knew, it didn't work that way with humans. They were dull in their instincts. He wouldn't recognize him as his made in the same way Eivind did. He didn't move; didn't say anything at all at first which may or may not have added to the young man's panic. Truthfully, Eivind didn't know what to do.<br/><br/>“I don't know,” Eivind answered. He didn't know who Alden was, or why he was asking for him. He'd known the pack had captured a human male and that they were torturing him, but he didn't know why he was asking for one of his captors. “I'm here because I was told to find you.” Not to rescue him of course, but to end his torment. Eivind wanted to look him over more, but his hands were hesitant. The human seemed to meet somewhere in the middle of fury, panic, and exhaustion and every move he made would exasperate the other. How could he tell him anything now?<br/><br/>Before he could try to explain anything else, Sieger burst through the door, annoyed. He wanted to be on his way before a fight broke out between the two tentative rival packs. He walked to Eivind where he was sitting on the bed, ignoring the stiffening of his back. Sieger was shaking his head, and when he reached for the boy, Eivind gave him a hard shove and double back on him with a solid blow to the jaw. Sieger had been shocked beyond reaction initially, and Eivind took the time to push him back further, when a full on brawl broke out between the two men. Synnove was the one who came in and broke it up, and typically she wouldn't have intervened, but it was so unusual for the two to ever fight.<br/><br/>“Eivind, what the fuck is wrong with you?” Synnove snapped as she positioned herself in front of her mate.<br/><br/>Eivind turned, paced the cabin, trying to get a grip on himself.<br/><br/>“No ones touching him,” Eivind made clear. “Leave.<i>Leave</i>. I need to figure this out.”<br/><br/>“I think it's a little late for that,” Alaric chimed in, snorting, just outside of the open doorway. Eivind stopped his pacing to glare past their alpha. Synnove couldn't wrap her head around what was going on, but she was trying. Here was Eivind, who typically wouldn't take a stand against anything guarding this strange human like a newborn pup or... Her face went pale, and she tried to pick up on the emotions Eivind was giving off, not just his words.<br/><br/>“Eivind..” she started, her tone softening to one hinting at sorrow for her other pack member.<br/><br/>Eivind could sense the other wolves coming in closer, and it was starting to make him claustrophobic. His movements were becoming more agitated, and Synnove slid turned her mate to face the door motioning him out.<br/><br/>“Easy, Eivind.” She could see he was close to some sort of outburst. “We'll keep them away. Figure it out, and we'll go from there,” Synnove said, though Sieger gave her a questioning look, and Alaric looked slightly dumbfounded. Her words calmed Eivind some, and he turned to stare once again, standing in the middle of the room at the human who was probably the most confused out of all of them.<br/><br/>“You're going to come with us,” Eivind finally said, realizing it didn't sound as reassuring out loud as it did in his own head.