<span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family:Open Sans">They drew everything out for a long while, soaking up the intimacy they'd found with one another like a dry sponge. It was sort of intoxicating, but there was nothing unsure about it, and Eivind couldn't get enough. It didn't matter where they were, or that it was chilly. They kept one another warm and moving for a long while, until they both found release, and Eivind knotted with his mate. It still had yet to be an inconvenience like it might have been to Eivind once before. Instead, they used the time together to kiss and touch, not wanting to part from one another regardless. Without all the activity though, it would be cold for a human, especially one with such low body fat like Blue. When Eivind started to move, to get up to do something about it, Blue clung to him, not wanting to leave.<br/>
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So instead, Eivind shifted to his wolf, insulating Blue with his dense coat. His mate found his place tucked up against his larger body, having no issue spending the night like that in the calm of the forest. Eivind would hear something approaching before it was able to pose any threat to his lover, his senses even more pronounced when in his truer form. Instinct told him to protect what was his, and Blue seemed to understand that. Eivind had told him that he'd keep him safe, and maybe he was just realizing how earnestly the wolf meant exactly that.<br/>
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If not, he was going to get another taste of it come morning.<br/>
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Eivind was waking groggy, content to laze around his sleeping mate and not go anywhere at all. He could tell Blue was warm, and his sleep deep as a product of that. The long coupling they'd shared that night also probably wore him out a little, and there was no reason initially not to allow his mate to sleep. At least not until Eivind heard someone approaching. His ears pricked forward, listening to the footsteps, and he tipped his black nose upward to identify the scent. It was easier to allow base instinct to take over, and Eivind identified that person as foe, rather than friend, no matter if he was also pack. Eivind stood carefully and padded away from Blue, sorry that he had to wake him and leave him to the chilly morning. He'd see what the problem was just as soon as his eyes could find focus.<br/>
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Eivind approached Freyr in what appeared to be a neutral fashion, no warning at all to his easy stride, only that he kept coming, and lunged before getting any sort of idea what the red-headed wolf was doing about. It didn't matter. He should have known to give them space. They'd been sleeping, and it wasn't the sort of thing Eivind enjoyed first thing in the morning, especially given how things had gone pretty much since the day he'd found Blue. Freyr realized his mistake too late, and Eivind was heading him off with fangs meant to render flesh. Freyt had put his arm up to guard his throat, and Eivind sank teeth into his elbow instead. Freyr went down, realizing resistance meant bone breaking or shoulder dislocation. He made an effort to get away, realizing the aggression Eivind was responding with. It wasn't something to be taken lightly. It seemed as if the light-hearted days of pestering the failed alpha were over with Eivind more inclined to respond with violence rather than his usual passive annoyance. At least Freyr didn't think he was going to test him anytime soon, not that he'd been planning on contesting his claim to his mate. He'd mostly been curious, and he was now rewarded with a personal account of Eivind's ferocity. Something had clicked into place, quite obviously, and so too had Freyr's self-preserving instinct. He was no alpha, and not so ambitious that he wanted to challenge someone so directly. Eivind gave him a shake, and then let him go, so that he could finish scrambling, before turning his back to the non-threat, now established.<br/>
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Eivind went back to Blue with the taste of blood in his mouth, and stains on his muzzle. His body language was neutral again. The attack didn't possess the sort of malice Eivind was capable of, and that was what likely made it able for him to stop. A lesson learned though, he was sure.</span></span>