Eye contact.
Mauti exhaled through her nose, the contempt written clearly in the way she eyed the approaching stranger. But she didn't pause in her drinking, only watched from beneath her lashes; went so far as to keep drinking, even after the other wolf had addressed her.
When she finally felt at least remotely quenched, she lifted her chin from the surface of the lake, staring openly at the other woman while she rasped her tongue along the length of her damp lips.
Then, simply: "What do you want?"
Mauti exhaled through her nose, the contempt written clearly in the way she eyed the approaching stranger. But she didn't pause in her drinking, only watched from beneath her lashes; went so far as to keep drinking, even after the other wolf had addressed her.
When she finally felt at least remotely quenched, she lifted her chin from the surface of the lake, staring openly at the other woman while she rasped her tongue along the length of her damp lips.
Then, simply: "What do you want?"