After a moment it seemed that his message had sunk in, and Deneb released his struggling brother. the smoke and ivory wolf narrowed his eyes, their yellowed fire still sparking at his sibling, and took a couple of steps back the darker wolf's form. There was a testing, probing quality to his gaze, and his tail was still raised stiffly behind him – Den wanted to see if his brother would take orders from him again or not. If not, then he didn't see much use in dragging things out by get Al to do his dirty work around here – or any work at all. Better to end things now. He could start from scratch, though it would be much easier to accomplish things if he could put Albireo to use.

”Come on. We're going hunting,” he grunted, the adrenaline of their brief altercation still seeping through him and bubbling to the surface in his voice. It wasn't a task of much importance, at least in the grand scheme, as far as Deneb was concerned. But together the two of them had the chance of bringing down larger prey than alone, and perhaps that would placate Phineas for the time being. Once the snowy alpha was no longer keeping such a close watch on the Cygni siblings and their productivity, they could turn their efforts to other things.