Kimber couldn't argue with him. She had seen the extent that some wolves went to, the extent her own mate had gone to in wiping out more than one pack for no reason other than power. She had seen more death than a person should though she had long ago decided that was why she stayed alone. There was no one to lose and no one to disappoint her if she had no one.
When his eyes moved back to her she could sense it. Could sense the destruction he had planned. Could feel the tension in the air around her from an alpha prepared for battle. It made the air almost thick causing her to back up. Everything in her pushed to push him back. To not back down, but this was not her territory and to do so would be to challenge him on his territory. Even if she thought she could take him she wasn't about to challenge another alpha.
The bark of a tree bit into her back and she struggled to keep from clenching her fists, to keep the anger from her face. To keep her face blank of all emotions. She wouldn't look away, but she wasn't going to give off any signs of aggression either. Especially since she didn't feel he was meaning to be threatening. He was caught up in the hunt, in the fight that was about to take place. She knew that feeling all to well.
The feeling was almost contagious. If she hadn't been on a strange territory and just met this alpha she would allow herself to be caught up in the bloodlust that came along with a hunt. Though as an alpha she had to be careful about allowing that to happen on another's territory. Alphas weren't always the nicest beings when caught up in the desire to kill, to fight, and more than one alpha had started a war by pushing a pack member of another alpha. She couldn't afford that. Especially not with an alpha that was prepared to wipe out another pack.
She didn't allow her body to react to the relief as he turned away from her tucking the anger that was naturally coiling through her to go back where it belonged. No matter where she was the alpha in her did not like another alpha asserting power, though sometimes it kept peace and that was what she needed with Peter. She moved a few feet away from the tree her back crying out in relief from the pressure of the bark.
She didn't miss look the she-wolf threw at her. Her body tensing all over again as the she-wolf looked prepared to come at her. Though a growl that could only come from an alpha stopped the she-wolf cold in her tracks. Kimber's eyes flickered to the male alpha and she couldn't help but admire him, even if just a little. He was strong for his age, something she hadn't truly found in the other alphas their age. She found most to be weak in comparison to her. A frustrating trait to say the least.
Her eyes took in his raven black hair and the icy blue eyes that were trained on her for a moment before he squatted down and picked up a handful of dirt. She thought about his offer. She had never turned away from a fight, she normally ran towards them head-on. The fact that he had read her well enough to know how much she despised alphas like the one he was about to take on said a lot. Though she wasn't sure if it was a lot about his ability to read others or her slacking.
"I don't need anything," she said as she glanced towards where his pack and gone the urge to join the fight becoming stronger as her wolfish instincts begged for blood. "Though I will join you in the fight as long as you guarantee your wolves will not turn on me unprovoked.
"Furthermore, understand I will respect your position on your territory, but try and assert dominance over me off this territory and it will not end well," she kept her body relaxed though her eyes were hard. She let a small smirk cross her lips. "But I am all for taking out that pack, and any others like it. You seem to have the means of finding those packs and I have nothing better to do."
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