Brisingr pulled out a dagger, the one given to himby his father as a birthday gift, and crept close to the frail creature. Once in a decent range he lunged onto the rabbit with the dagger and ejected it into the base of it spine, paralyzing it.

Elk's ear twitched when Brisingr came back and he drowsily lifted his head, coming out of sleep at the same time. He looked the pup over for a moment, noticing the rabbit he had and the way it'd been killed. Part of him was impressed. It took a lot of skill for a human to catch a rabbit with just their claw-things. Usually they set weird traps or shot them with the pointed sticks. 

He stood up and padded over to him. Although Elk looked mildly content, as if he'd forgiven Brisingr for what he said, his ex
pression was different. Like he was deep in thought about something he wasn't quite sure how to take.  

There was no good in getting on a blodhgarm's bad side. Brisinger just took up cleaning his rabbit and sat away.

Elk frowned slightly, rather disappointed that Brisinr had chosen to ignore him. For some reason that bothered him, making him nervous although he didn't know why. He hadn't thought he'd been too cold to the pup, but maybe he had without realizing it.

Letting out an almost sighing sound, he flopped back down to the ground, waiting for the human to finish with the rabbit. 

He wondered what was going on with him. Was it something he did to aggitate Elk? Or was it the nap. A smart being such as Elk was not above nightmares.

After a bit, Elk felt a dryness on his throat and snorted, standing up and habitually shaking the leaves from his pelt. He glanced over at Brisingr, wondering if he should alert him as to where he was going, but the human seemed busy with a fire. His pelt began to prickle and he frowned slightly. It wasn't as if he hadn't seen a human make a fire for cooking before, but after what Brisingr had told him what the king was planning, the though of flames, which had always been his enemy, made him nervous. 

He shook his mas.sive head again, mentally telling himself he was just being stupid about a little cooking fire, and padded off in the direction of a small creek nearby. Arriving within a few minutes, he lowered his head and began lapping up the cool water. The small stream was one of the many reasons he like his den location so much. It was too small for humans to really bother with, but close enough to his den and always a dependable source of water in any season but winter.

He managed to set a decent fire and make a nice spit to cook the rabbit on. He began to think abou the castle and all the fine things he would be eating now. Delicious things and delicate garnishings with tasty drinks. He shook it from his mind and went back to focusing on his rabbit.

The fox looked easy enough to defeat, but Brisingr foolishly left his dagger planted in a tree opposite of the fox.

The sound of Brisingr's howl made Elk jump back from the stream as if he'd been shocked. He twisted his head around, the water still dripping from his muzzle, and speed back off towards the camp.

Only moments later, he burst through the brush and snarled menacingly at the fox, which immediately jumped away from Brisingr in fear. Elk snarled again, taking a few steps forward, his head low and the fur on his hackles raised. The fox yipped and ran in the opposite direction, Elk chasing after it until it disappeared into the brush.

Elk frowned, his ears pulling back, and turned around to approach the human pup cautiously, wondering if he was ok.

With his eyes in a pained look he managed to say something to Elk in thanks. "Thank you. I shouldnt have been so reckless about where I lay my dagger."He said as he sat to the ground. He took his shirt off and began to shred it up to make cloth bandages.

Elk frowned a bit more, touching Brisingr's shoulder with his tail before padding off. He was worried about the bite, knowing that all creatures, especially humans, could get infections from a bite. He trotted through the forest, his head sweeping back and forth until he finally found what he needed. It was a plant that he often used to prevent infections. He bit off a few stalks before returning back to camp, where the pup was now missing part of his odd material and was trying to wrap his arm. 

Snorting slightly, Elk padded back over to Brisingr and butted his head against the pup's, trying to get him to stop what he was doing, before setting the plant stalks down and beginning to lick at the wound. He'd clean it first and treat it, then the human could go about doing whatever odd thing he'd been doing. 

It stung as Elk clean the bruised and bloodied arm, but Brinsingr held his own. He watched some sort of medical plant salve on his wound.

It made him wonder. Had Elk never recieved a hug as grattitude befor? Or even at all. He began to think of how to explain what he had just done.

"Do you understand? Or am I failure as a teacher?"he laughed softly.

Elk's ears pricked forward and he listened to Brisingr carefully. No, he'd never gotten a "hug" before. It simply wasn't in a wolf's nature to do such a thing. In fact, it seemed downright difficult to do without knocking the other wolf over... well, at least in Elk's case that might have been a problem. He was considerably bigger than most wolves, after all.

Still, he did understand it, but he wanted to show the pup one of the ways wolves showed these kinds of feelings. Carefully, he pressed his nose against Brisingr's. As a wolf, he was surprised how dry and warm the human's nose was compared to his rather cold and wet one. He pulled his ears back slightly, wondering if the bite had already made Brisingr sick.

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"Thanks."he said to Elk with a bit less pain. He next noticed the new look of confusion on Elk's face.

((That's no good D: Look on the bright side, though! Everyone at my school agrees that the soccer team has it worse o3o))

Elk cocked his head to the side, keeping his muzzle close to the pup's face without their noses actually touching. How was he going to explain this to Brisingr? It wasn't as if he could talk to ask about the human's health, but no gestures he could think of could relay his worry.

In the end, he just pressed his nose against the pup's again, staring at him through reddish eyes as he hoped Brisingr got the message.

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Brisingr watched as Elk gently pressed his nose against his. He thought about this gesture for a while.

"Youre concerned that my nose does not feel like yours, correct?"Brisingr guessed.

((D: Blasphemy! Your school took away my two favorite sports :<))

Elk resisted his urge to sneeze when Brisingr touched his nose and instead made a sort of deep huffing sound as he nodded his head to show Brisingr that he'd guessed right. He butted his head against the human's chest, trying to get him to lay down so he wouldn't be putting out so much energy by sitting up and moving his arms around. Elk wanted the pup to rest and get better so he wouldn't get any more sick.