Nootau was a new addition to the Mountain Pack. Well, sort of. He was here on a trial run, or so Nootau had name it. He wanted to see if this place felt like home to him. So far, it had had a good start. Nootau liked the former alpha, Alcide very much, and though he had yet to meet his mate and new alpha, Moonglow, Nootau felt that he would like her as well. He had found his own den amongst the pack, though it was still more or less on the edges of it. Nootau had been an outcast half of his life, so the old habit of picking a den non-intrusive died hard. It was a cozy place, though. It was deep and out of the wind and raised a few feet above the main path so that in winter, he wouldn’t get snowed in. Format wise, it was a bit like a tunnel with a bulb at the end of it large enough for one wolf.

Nootau was sprawled across the end of his new living space, one paw hooked over a stone that had marked an old bed. As light glittered in and tickled his eyelids, he woke. Nootau’s ear flicked in annoyance at first, upon realising the day, he jolted awake and flipped onto his stomache with glowing eyes. It was an adventure day! Nootau yawned and sneezed almost at the same time before he jumped up and bounded outside. He stepped out and stretched, and shook his fur to puff out the flattened fur on the side he had been sleeping on. When he refocused, he blinked at the pure white form of a she-wolf at the pool in the distance. Whoa. He really liked it here.

The pool was more pawsteps away than it appeared to be in his unobstructed view of it. Such was the nature of the winding mountain paths, any distance was always twice as long than it appeared. Nootau having lived in mountains before, was already accustomed to this, and he happily made to journey. He turned a corner around a boulder and there the young lady was. Nootau was surprised at her height, it being uncommon for females in even Moladion, the land of giants. It did little to deter his confidence in approaching her though. She looked pleasant, and that was all Nootau needed to greet her.

He put on his best face, and strode over to her smoothly. He sat down beside her, though he did not invade her personal space and greeted, “Good morning! My name is Nootau. What’s yours?” He lapped up a couple mouthfuls of water before he turned his orange and blue eyes on her again. He was still learning, having had very little experience in the flirtation department since his peers had scorned him, and thus was his dry friendly greeting rather than something saucy. He didn’t want to scare her off or seem distasteful, so he was more or less after friendship first. Maybe he’d through in some flattery later.