A/N Discussion on Wolfblood cultural drawn from the Wolfblood wiki, which is drawn from the tv show and mostly involves a few off hand comments made in various episodes and insults thrown back and forth between the tame pack and the wild pack on the show.

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"Understand, I'm not insulting them when I say that. Over the last few centuries there's been a cultural shift in our people that caused a schism. Ignoring the world of full humans isn't possible, you've been encroaching on our territories by force for centuries. Add to that the fears and misunderstandings normal humans have regarding wolves and it put us in a very difficult position. We were forced by circumstances to interact with your society whether we wanted to or not. So that led to working among you and then progressed to living among you. The wild packs feel living among you takes it too far, erodes our culture and beliefs and there is truth in that belief."

"Alex's Ansion ability is a good example of that." Cordelia told them. "Over time, the tame packs stopped using it and it's extended ability, known as Eolas. Eolas allows one to connect their mind to nature and see through the world. The tame packs started having a problem with even being able to use it at all. We can get lost in it. The wild pack use it all the time, instinctively. Some times tame packs lose their members to the wild packs because of that getting lost in Eolas."

"It also caused some issues in our religion and gradually a second form emerged, one used by the tame pack and one used by the wild pack." Jesse took up the narrative. "Which deepened the divide between us. Tame and wild started as insults that each pack claimed for themselves."

"And you were born to the wild pack, if I remember correctly." Giles said to Alex.

"Yes and then I joined the tame pack, it was a choice, Tony Harris, my father rejected. I lived with my Uncle Rory for awhile just after I joined the tame pack and then my parents quit the human world all together and live full time in their wolf forms. I haven't seen them since I started Junior High. Uncle Rory assures me they're alive and well and still living in the National Forest. He doesn't agree with Tony rejecting me, because my joining the tame pack was just an excuse Tony used for his own choices. They're not the only ones who've rejected the human world entirely, most of the wild pack have, although not all of them live entirely in their wolf form, but they do live in the Forest. Others still work in the human world, but return to the Forest in wolf form every night. I spent a lot of my childhood in the that forest even before I reached the age of transforming myself."

"But why would they kill a werewolf or hunter?" Willow asked.

"Because they won't tolerate the intrusion in their territory. Full wolves don't either, territories are clearly marked for a reason and you're expected to respect that."

"But a human doesn't know it's their territory." Willow protested, still not understanding.

"Yes, they do, they may not know it's Wolfblood territory, but they do know they're in an animal's territory and humans go into nature for only two reasons, to admire or connect to it in some way or to hunt. And werewolves attract hunters, which in turn endangers Wolfbloods and wolves. So the Wolfbloods will react first. A wolf will kill a human invading it's territory if a member of the pack is in danger, mostly they try to avoid humans, wild Wolfbloods tend to choose to just go for the kill."

"So we need to find this werewolf and the clock's ticking." Buffy decided. "Because last night they hunted in your territory, that's how you know there's a new werewolf around, right?"

"Yes and they took off when they smelled us coming."

"So now it knows there's wolves where it was hunting last night, even if it doesn't remember that fact in while in human form, it'll probably try to avoid your territory and go looking for new hunting areas."

"It's brain may be smaller while in that form, but it's large enough for it to understand that there were four of us and only one of it." Alex agreed. "It'll understand it was in another's territory and that odds of a confrontation won't be in it's favor so it'll look somewhere else to hunt, which leaves the National Forest, unless something distracts it."

"What could distract a werewolf?" Johnathan asked curiously.

"It's an animal,' Alex smirked. 'it has four primary instincts, eat, protect, sleep and mate. It can satisfy its need to eat with a rabbit or a wild pig, it can sleep on the ground, it has only itself to protect and it'll be aware of the hormones and pheromones other animals, including humans, give off. The urge and instinct to mate can override other instincts."

"So it might show an interest in humans engaging in their mating dance." Giles offered. "And humans are going to see either monster or wild animal if they see a werewolf, which also risks potential problems. So finding it before it runs into humans or Wolfbloods or attracts a hunter is our best case scenario. Where exactly should we concentrate on looking for it?"