The creature

Thalia and Ruben made all haste back to the pack settlement, the sun was about to rise and soon the wolf will leave them.

Crossing Death valley they felt assured no human would be this deep in, its one of the reasons the Nevada pack made homestead here, the vast open desert had its peaks and hills where they can hide, that and its a death sentence to get stranded here, humans knew it.

As for being werewolves crossing Death valley took almost half an hour, it was an advantage they had, the means to stay ahead of mankind, inconspicuous, even learning to stay on hard enough places so they don't leave tracks behind.

Branco had one rule concerning humans, the only circumstance where they might interact with them, no, more get close to them, was finding someone who got lost in the desert.

As wolves they can identify the location of the lost person and head back to alert human rescue teams to send a chopper as soon as the moon is gone.