The boy had spunk. Cuirass liked that. He seemed wary of Cuirass which he counted as a good thing. It would never do for a pup to regard everyone with trust, especially a wolf from a pack like Asteraia. They would have too many enemies. The boy was quick to reply back, telling him his stomach was strong enough. Cuirass chuckled but turned on his heels, leading the boy toward his favorite place in Asteraia, besides his ambush tree, that is. He glanced behind him as he spoke, wanting to gauge the boy's reactions. He didn't know much about kids and when they were supposed to start eating solid foods in an ideal world since the only pup he'd been around was Boneskull and he had been abandoned by his parents when Cuirass found him. Cuirass had brought him solid foods to begin with and the boy ate it, but then he was starving and probably knew if he didn't eat something, he would die. Boneskull was a survivor, for sure.

But this boy was well fed and had been raised by his attentive mother, so there was no telling what Hircine was feeding the boy right now. Cuirass had to guess he'd at least be curious about solid foods by now. Maybe she was already bringing him back scraps from her hunts. But she probably didn't bring him wolf meat. He wondred how the boy would react to seeing skulls and bones from his own species but he didn't seem to hesitate long, just long enough to look over the boneyard with a calculating gaze before it was like a light bulb clicked behind his eyes. Cuirass curled his lips back in a smirk, ears pricked toward the pup in case he had any questions. Finally the young male looked at him and asked if this was all his doing. He showed some teeth in a grin and nodded. "Yeah. I mean, there was one or two bones here when I found it but they were old and not from my kind of prey so I added to the collection and it's just grown from there.

He shrugged, as if it was no big deal. When the boy asked if he shared, he trotted over to a leg bone that had some meat on it and picked it up, walking back to the pup and dropping it at his paws. But he put a paw over it before the boy could get any funny ideas. He lowered his head to eye level. "Well, I definitely don't share with strangers. So you gonna give me a name?"