Second wife missed her children's company. She had long grown used to the Nuiruk brood wandering in and out of the hearth. 

The cloudberry called softly for the growing younglings, whom had seen six months in the span of their lives on the mountainside. The injured man rested in her ulaq and the doe was determined to keep the cubs from him until she had an understanding of his character. 

Lótë settled to the side of the den's entrance, where she could keep watch on her children and the healing he-wolf alike. Here, she hoped to gather the Nuiruk pups for a lesson on the spirits and stories from her own homeland.