"Yes that is what you are smelling young one," Taka answered the wolf boy. "Try it and see what you think."

Taka turned his attention to Haru and considered his question. "Pain is something that I have been trained to ignore. Pain, hungry, tiredness, all of it."

Taka got up and begin to prepare the deer meat to dry and smoke for jerky. He words effortlessly not even seeming conscious of the time or the fact that he hadn't slept much at all in the last couple of days. His body had been trained to run off of whatever sleep he could catch, sometimes going days on only an hour or so of sleep.