Awesome, just awesome.

Just a thing, I do know Kulkum's text implied the wolf's hand might have been cut when the alpha retrives the sword, but no one who knows the first thing about combat, especially sword fighting, would ever hold a sword like that, particularly when handing it to someone. Holding it like that he would have been cut even if the alpha put the utmost care in retrieving the sword. (I don't want to criticise, I'd never be able to do what you do, i just want to give my to cents as someone who's done a couple of years of Japanese swordsmanship.) The way I imagined while reading kulkum's story it could have been something like the way you hand over a sword in Japanese culture, considering the wolf even bowed which is part of it. Not sure about the western way but I think it's similar. The sword is placed on both hands, palms facing upwards, right(dominant) hand underneath the hilt, left underneath the blade (roughly the center, the position where the hand naturally goes considering the other one is at the top of the hilt and they are spaced naturally for the width of the shoulders) edge facing outwards (if single edge). both hands just supporting the sword (which is obviously parallel to the ground, otherwise it would fall), not gripping, especially the blade, you never grip the blade. This is how you hand a sword, it's way safer, but if the one that receives it just yanks it away you can still get cut.

Considering Kulkum used this very image as the cover for the chapter i realise you must be both very satisfied with it, I'm just saying it because this story is so good it really pulls me in and gets me involved and I identify with the characters so sometimes it makes me wonder how i would have done it.

Love both your works, hope to read a lot more soon.