For a number of hours now, as the sun had begun to rise in the sky, Judas had found himself settling amongst the bush and reeds near the lake, away from the heat of the sun as she tucked himself up and away into the shadows to keep himself cool. Usually he was content to sleep within the cavern den if his pack but this time he had settled down elsewhere for a change granted his exploring around this northern reach the night prior.

He was only disturbed when the sound of lapping water caught his attention. Devilishly pointed black ears perked, twitching on his crown to listen to the noise far before the dark grey eyes opened to see another yearling wolf before him, out by the water's edge. His nose went to work then, sniffing out the woman as his head slowly rose. He had never seen her before but if she smelt anything like a Surge wolf he would be content to take her down. Fortunately for her, she did not smell like one of them.

"Who're you? He decided on questioning then as he lifted up onto long legs and out from his placement to which then lazily made way into her direction.

Her display towards him, as he had lift himself from the brush he had been settled under in order to greet the stranger, was annoying to say the least. She quivered and her eyes darted about an though to look for a means of the quickest exit. She was gauging the situation of she needed to leave in a hurry which Judas should have assumed was a smart move for any stranger, but he didn't. He was unbending when it came to his dislike for flighty, fragile and fickle creatures, including his own kind. The way she acted reminded him of the coyote they had been hunting down like the vermin they were, no wolf.

He snorted as though to show his disinterest, be it in her submissive display or to show he had equally no interest in making an attack. At least right now. It was disappointing seeing females like these, where predominantly in his life he had been around strong, smart and independent women. Like his mothers, like @Neha, his two aunts he had met and of course, @Nineva.

She gave her name then and after side stepping said he could have a drink if that's what he wanted and she explained how she wanted to trouble. His nose gave a wrinkle. "Calm down. I ain't gonna hurt ya." He then suddenly say is though to confirm it. As he looked over her petite form, he began to let his mind then over why she was so afraid - a loner out on her own, very small, probably in a new land, coyote everywhere... He was over half her size in weight, tall as can be. It was no wonder, sure, but he would have still thought she'd have some dignity about her. "Ya just woke me up, is all."

The small female before him would nod ever delicately to his words about having no intention of doing her harm and for the first time in these moments of their encounter she lifted her head and looked him over. He didn't say anything, simply looking at her back with those dark grey eyes. Again, her much smaller size compared to his own, perhaps the smallest wolf he'd seen other then a pup. Scrawny and a bit unkempt from her life as a rogue. Judas remembered those days with his brother well. Back then it was winter which made things harder and yet bow with the coyotes it was just worse.

Aela, as she said her name was, gave her thanks and allowed herself to turn enough to finish off the drink she had been doing before Judas interrupted her. She was still tense, weary, this which he could understand but the shaky mess he had seen in those first few moments left. She sat and turned to look around, to what he was not sure. For more pack wolves? For the coyotes? He noticed the large scar across her cheek, a clear sign she had not an entirely friendly life thus far.

"Nah it's okay. My fault for being too lazy to go back to the den when the sun got high anyhow." He huffed to himself, a sheepish smirk pressing over his features. His large paws shifted over the sandy lake shore but he didn't move any closer. "Name's Judas, by the way."

Judas Archer was certainly a large wolf, as many of his Archer bloodline. He was not far from his own father's size, though even as she would have thought him so grand, his siblings were actually larger then he. There wasn't any wolves in his family he had seen that were small before. Average, perhaps, but not small. He would get placed a half cocked grin over his features of he had known how large she thought he was and yet, still smaller then men like @Elias and @Aytigin, a few members of his pack.

When she said it was nice to meet him he could only assume she was just being polite and then she offered for him to come closer. He didn't feel a need to and yet he was curious of how far this could go. Maybe she could be of use to him. Maybe in the long run she could be of use to the pack. After all, Bellatrix had brought some flea bitten boy to their borders and the female before him looked a hell of alot better then that.

"Well alright..." He mused as he lifted up again onto all four paws and lazily moved into the females direction along the vast lake. "So where ya headed anyhow?" He spoke, referencing to her obviously being a wondering rogue and from the looks of it, out on her own. When he got close enough to her, taking in her scent and further details to her features, his black leathery nose twitched, head lifting high. "Hey, you smell that? There was food nearby.