Tsume seemed so confident in his answer that Zelda was inclined to accept it. Clearly he knew more about wolves than the average person. Zelda's limited knowledge of wolves came from books or Link; but since the latter was a person cursed into the form of a wolf, it probably didn't count for much.

"You don't believe it's trying to frighten us?"

"The village seems like it has been abandoned for a long time," she went on. "I wonder if we are encroaching on the wolf's territory by living here."