Grezig had recently discovered The Door and did not know how she felt about it. Apparently, it was to be a communal den site for the pack—a place to hold meetings, to shelter in bad weather, and a place where pups could safely be born. Yet there was something undeniably creepy about the place the farther in you went. It got darker and darker towards the back, but there were tunnels that seemed to go forever. The tunnels near the front were the ones for whelping and/or sleeping, but these ones in the back… Grezig shuddered to think of some poor soul getting lost in the dark back here. She turned then and went back to the entrance, poking her head through the vines and other foliage to look outside.

Grezig, with her head poked out of the foliage, noticed that her sister had approached. ’Creepy place,’ Yizur commented, and Grezig grunted in agreement. She pulled herself all the way out of the vines and sat down in front of the entrance. Her sister then commented that anyone could get lost in there, and again, Grezig had agree.

“It is to be used for shelter during storms, as a whelping den, and for meetings,” she explained. “But yes, we will have to be careful. We must teach our pups, should the pack have any, not to go farther back than the light touches.” She turned and looked at the sky for a moment, seemingly lost in thought, and then looked back at her sister. “How are you settling in?” It was still strange to have Yizur around, having not seen her for months before they ran into each other here. “Do you miss home?” It was also strange to considered home. She no longer truly thought of the forest in which she had been born as home. Now, home was wherever her new pack was, whether it be the Plateau or anywhere else.

Yizur told Grezig that she was settling in fine and that she “slightly” missed home. Hmm. “You have only been here a few days,” Grezig commented. “It is natural to miss one’s home when one first leaves it.” In all honesty, Grezig herself had not really thought of home at all since running into Liri and Kavik. She had known from an early age that she would leave her natal pack behind. She had wanted to start her own family since she had been a year old, and that was not allowed in her birth pack. This meant she would have to leave in order to find a mate and have pups.

So, she had left. And, upon finding Liri and Kavik, and learning that potentially anyone in the pack could have pups if their ranks were high enough, she had decided to stay. Now she was Beta. What a strange ride it had been. Strange, but satisfying.


Grezig and her sister finished up their conversation and departed from the Door, going in separate directions. Little did Grezig know that her sister would soon disappear from the pack lands without a word to anyone...