It was early morning when Odie awoke.  For about an hour Odette just stayed quietly in the den, keeping to herself and her Father.  She wished that she could have been a better daughter, because apparently she had failed him from her perspective.  If only she had been... braver... less timid... more outgoing.  Then maybe she wouldn't have been left behind.

Careful not to wake up anyone else who slept in the den, Odette slipped out carefully and quietly into first light.  Then after padding fifteen feet away from the den, to give her a little space from that place, Odette sat and just stared into the distance thinking of everything that she should have and could have done.

Odette was surprised to see Krypton again, but made no mention of it.  The pup just let her eyes nervously trail the ground before her.  Although Odie was surprised that the brown furred female was back to see her again, especially after how Odie had just left Krypton last time.

The fluffy pup took a deep breath, eyeing the much taller wolf cautiously.  "Why you here?"  Odette asked in a soft yip with questions rolling through her mind like waves.  What did this wolf even have to tell her?  Had something happened?  Was she here to confess something?  Play?  Odette quietly waited for an answer.

As soon as Krypton spoke the words about telling her about her Father though, time just seemed to stop.  Her Father?  What did Krypton know about her Father?  Would she tell her of her Father's death?  What her Father had been like?  Odette was silent for a whole minute, very deep in thought about what Krypton might have to tell her.  Then finally the fluffy brown pelted pup began to speak.

"Tell me."  Odette breath quietly and then proceed to stare up at Krypton, as if the taller grown wolf could reveal everything to her.  Everything that she had ever wanted to know about her deceased Father, which happened to be every last thing detail.  Every last thing.  All summed up, Odie wanted to know everything.

Odette listened quietly as Krypton spoke, although she did sniffle a sob a couple times, she mostly stayed pretty stoic.  As she listened her Father became more and more like this figure that she really wanted to end up like.  He was like a light in the darkness.  Something beyond perfection... or at least he seemed like that from what she had heard... although that formed a question in her mind, despite how much she loved this Father who she had never really gotten to know.  How could anyone be perfect?  Another sad question formed in her little mind too about how Krypton claimed her Father had been happy when he died... how could dying be happy?  It just made no sense.  Had Krypton been there when he died or something?

"Di he haav onney faults an haw waa he happy when he died?"  Odette asked Krypton with a small frown, not understanding the point of those two parts of what the older brown furred wolf had told her.  Then Odette waited for an answer to her question about her absent Father.

Odette was glad to hear that her Father had faults.  It wasn't like she wanted him to be bad at anything... no.  She just wanted him to seem much more real and faults made a being seem much more realistic.  No one was perfect after all.  Not even her Father as Krypton had clarified to her.  Although Odette wasn't to sure that she carried that fault, because she in fact did not trust just anyone.

"Waaa uzzzz your daddeh wike?"  Odette asked Krypton was a little cock of her head.  She didn't want to upset the Gamma in anyway, but she was very curious about the pasts of the wolves of Silvertip Mountain.  Especially the ones that she liked.

At first Krypton's Daddy seemed awesome, mostly since he happened to be a loving man like her own Father.  Although soon her opinions changed as soon as Krypton said that he played favorites.  To Odette that information sounded terribly mean.  She was happy that her own Father hadn't been like that... from what she had gathered.

"Dat soons meeeean."  Odie said unhappily, and soon found a follow up question to that.  "Awwso, um just curious, buh who wah da favite?"  She asked Krypton curiously, wondering who it had been.  Had it been Krypton herself or had it been someone else?