Thray was a part of a small, close-knit pack of coywolves who had banded together as they found it hard to join packs of wolves. Thray's mother joined while still pregnant with a wolf's pups- the wolf had abandoned her shortly after their coupling, so she sought out others who might accept her. All went well until they took in a sickly, lone coyote joined them- a carrier of the disease distemper. Thray and her mother and brothers, who were naturally standoffish, left when she was still a very young pup, knowing that only danger awaited them around the sickly coyote. They then found Tsillah, and were taken in. The pups were raised there, but Thray left the pack after she was a year old to branch out on her own.