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THE WOLF BRACED himself, steeling for an attack, when the second human scent came to it. The scent was muted and strange; it was difficult to determine exactly where it was coming from.
The female human was standing just off to the wolf's left, and the other wolf was a few steps from single leaping distance in front. And that was where the other human scent was coming from.
He paused, regarded the other with a curious tilt of his head.
That vague and unfamiliar human scent had been coming from the other wolf – but it wasn't the sort of scent that clung to the fur or came from being in close proximity with another creature.
The human scent was coming directly from the other wolf. As if it were part human.
The other wolf ceased its own warning growl, regarded the wolf with almost-human eyes. In those eyes, a pale blue that seemed unnervingly foreign for the species, and in the combined wolf-human scent coming off it, it was clear that the other was aware of what the wolf smelled.
It issued a short, almost human sounding bark and unpredictably lunged again toward the female human.