He had smiled casually as she had made no promises not to get into trouble, it didn't take him long to grab the rabbits either and with that the two had eaten their meal in silence. The whole trip had been in silence. He'd wondered to himself if she would take his gesture in kindness or continue her grumpy nature the entire time. It wasn't like he'd gotten the position yet or that she'd have to fight him at all for that matter to obtain such a position. She was young, it seemed that she didn't understand this fact, it seemed that alot of the pups didn't understand this fact. It made him wonder if something should be done about this in Diveen, wondered if he should talk with Kane or Isola about such things... or if he should just leave it alone and watch from the outskirts like he'd been doing this whole time. After their meal they had continued on in silence, Beowulf very much lost in his thoughts as he tried to figure out all the details for todays events as well as how he could broach the subject of the pups with someone else.

As they waited on the boarder he patiently watches Sage and listens to her words, nodding his head as she speaks about why she wants this position, his bloody orange eyes show wisdom from the years he's spent as a fighter, as a killer, he'd done many things in his life. Some he was not to happy with, but he knew that they had been done for the betterment of his home. "I do not think you are wrong for the position Sage, you have a lot of heart and that's what a wolf needs in order to get the job it's assigned to, done." He pauses as he looks out over the Spirane landscape, eyes of blood and orange taking in the high peaks and the snowy tops, the tree's that filled in the valley's and the sky above, all in one quick glance, "But you also have to realise that while you want to do things, you want to help protect the pack, your not yet experienced to go after another wolf, or to take the beatings that come along with being in a fight."

He was not an overly old wolf, eight seasons he had run with packs, eight seasons he'd spent constently training and honeing the skills he'd been given since birth. "I was not born an assassin Sage.. no one ever is born into their life task, I had to work really really hard for the positions that have been given to me by previous packs, training is a big part of that." He looks down at her, though his voice is deadly serious his eyes are kind and his expression is one of care. He had seen many young wolves foolishly rush head first into a fight only to never make it out alive. A waste of a good body, a good soul... it never ended with pups, always trying to be the best right out of the womb. He supposed some of that would come from their parents, it often made him wonder about his own pups some times, Aelfgar was of a similar mind to Sage, she wanted to be the one to fight all the fights and yet she was far to young, even now at two, to be off fighting with the demons.

"Always strive to become better no matter how good you become because there is always someone else out there that will be bigger, stronger, faster, smarter... it doesn't matter what you do, there will be fights that you can not win, perhaps you will never win them." He is trying to make her understand, that though she is upset right now over not being able to take on this task herself, that she has plenty of time to try and do it all. "How about when we get back to Diveen we'll start some excersizes and training to help you acheive your goal, if I do obtain this rank and I've deemed you ready then you may challenge me for it all you want, and may the best wolf win." He sighed hearing the paw steps off in the distance of perhaps a Spirane wolf, perhaps it was something else all together a past memory of a time so long gone, "but do try to remember, it is not about the rank within the pack that you hold, but what you do with yourself. You don't need the rank of Sheild to be a sheild. All fighters within a pack, assassin or not, are needed. It is never just one soul, but many that make up the strength of a pack."

"Talks like this"