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feel free to PP Alder explaining/showing him the basics of lunging... I didn't want to draw anything out with gallons of dialog. I'm happy to continue if you are! 
To stand beside a creature that was so completely different then their own kind was an unnatural thing. Alder had thought long about that principle. Wolves and their like were not made to stand beside a prey animal, but behind it. In the chase. They did not only have to teach the horse not to run, teach them that they could indeed be trusted, but they needed to show their own bodies that the horse was a friend and not a meal. A comfort and an ease was necessary when developing the bond of rider and horse, even if it was just in the simplest of movements such as walking side by side.
It will help determine if she has been trained before. To walk on and to halt. He explained to the golden wolf.
Alder gathered up the long line, and then the thin stick whip that he used to encourage the horse at the end of the lunge line. He waited and watched, finding that Skoll worked well with the mare. He had confidence and was eager to learn and that was what they all needed in order to move forward with any sort of training. He approached the Marshal and Alder gave him a nod. Remove that lead, and place this one on her. Please. It was unnatural for the masked wolf to give commands, but instead of feeling unsure he knew that what he asked was proper and necessary.
He waited for Skoll to return with the lead so that Alder could take it up in his hand. With the other black dipped fingers he turned the thin whip between them, and moved slowly to the center. He did not make sudden movements, but slowly and with a fluid sense that he had gained from experience. He looked to the male, eyes searching for the green orbs to direct him out to the edge with a meaningful nod of his head. He did not want to get tied up in the line.
Positioned in the center of the ring Alder watched the mare. She was to walk at the end of the line and he would move with her, the whip only a gentle encouragement for her to get started. Her body pulled out at the first steps, and Alder instinctively knew when to give a pull of the rein and when to touch with the whip. Always releasing the tension of the correction in the rein and never startling with a too harsh a snap of the whip.
Her body relaxed, more quickly then most and he could see that it was not her first time in being asked to do such a thing. He slowed her, and then called for the male to join him. Its your turn. He was confident that the mare could handle the younger wolf taking the rein.
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