The pair had been in the pack for a season, sure, but had done extraordinarily very little to deem themselves worthy of any recognition. They had joined the pack at an extremely difficult time - during which the pack had lost its foundation, and Northfall was still struggling to find balance. In that, Arvid had welcomed them in during their time of need, and who was it that once said that “love was helping someone else when you, yourself, was struggling?” Had it been his mother? It sounded like something his mother would have said.
He was summoned to the borders, by the pair - a weird place for a lunch date. Should I have brought something, too, then?
Arvid noted the scraps they carried with them - the little corpse of a rabbit, and a leg of a deer. Snacks, really; wouldn’t really fill a stomach - and do nothin’ but make an empty stomach even hungrier.
He tilted his head, eyes on Jok, though. Given his need for urgency, Arvid knew this wasn’t a lunch date. Perhaps if they had actually gone on cute lunch dates like these in the past season, they would have grown closer, instead of becoming estranged.