The Alpha: You're kinda freaking out my packmates here.
The Dark Lady: And I should care because?
The Alpha: ...I wonder if it's appropriate for the ruler of the land, an evil dark sorceress, to play so eagerly with puppies.
The Dark Lady: I wonder if your pack knows you're a jerky alpha who brought me here just to freak them out.
The Alpha (clutching his chest in exaggeration): My Lady, how can you slander me so?
She rolls her eyes and ignores him, petting the three wolf cubs that are contentedly snuggling into her lap.
Good thing she didn't belong to a werewolf clan or any animal shapeshifter clan, she thought. Because if she did, she would absolutely get no work done at all.