Heartha was a young mother. Of her first litter, she had two pups. Sadly, one of them was killed by a cougar. She was overcome grief and despair, neglecting her only pup. Until something came along that was unfamiliar to the pack. A creature with no hair except atop it's head. Immediately after seeing it as no threat, and against the pack's judgement, she took it in as her own. As it turned out, it was a three year old human baby that had wandered away during a camping trip.

She looked after the human boy for a week. Until they were found by humans that came to rescue the boy. She saw them as trying to take her son from him, and the pack defended the child. One it was over, she was forced to flee as the pack fell. Only she and two others survived. Her wolf child had not survived.