Lucia smiled nervously as she watched the excited white wolf. She stood taller when the other wolf commented her pup. Steel at first looked like he was going to growl, but then he bowed on his front paws and wagged his short tail, wanting to play.<br/><br/>Lucia smiled back at the alpha after the white wolf ran off. "She seems... excitable, but pleasant," she said, not sure what else to say. After a moment's pause, she added, "My name's Lucia, by the way, and my pup's name is Steel. It's been a long trail for us, and I do apologize that we were forced into your territory."<br/><br/>She whined involuntarily at the loss of her other two pups. Steel bounced around her paws, trying to use her as a prop to stand on his hind legs. Finally he managed to stand upright, and put his cold nose to the corner of his mother's mouth, forcing her partially digested food up, and Steel excitedly began to eat it. Lucia watched her surviving pup for a long moment before looking up at the alpha again.<br/><br/>"Do you have any idea why they hunt us? I couldn't imagine that we taste all that good, not like deer or moose or caribou. And yet, the humans are targeting us as much as their usual game. We are not prey, and yet we are forced to run because they have those devastating metal things..." Lucia's thoughts trailed off and she went silent again.