Re: Stairs to the roof. The shadows. [Belated Swearing warning?]
In the Wolf's world, retribution was always for very specific reasons. Territory, procreation, dominance. It was about being alpha, in the end, and that was the only reason the Wolf thought someone could have it in for the not-thing beneath his arm. He kept the not-thing from squirming, as if it was a cub, and he nosed its hair in a gesture of understanding. "They want to be Alpha," he said, all of his knowledge of the animal world in the statement. "What do you have that they want?" he clarified, because he didn't think the not-thing was very smart, as far as not-things went.
He was feeling better now that the bleeding had stopped, now that he had rested. He would return to the hunt soon.