The big Arctic has submerged his body in the cold water. He knew it could be dangerous to drop his own body temperature like that, but his leg was hurting like hell, and the wounds on his face were burning hard.The flow was soothing, cold, but the Northerner was used to low temperatures, and he stayed in the water long enough for his pain to fade away. He needed it. And then he came out of the water, determined to find food.

What came in the next two seconds were the thing Keith expected the least in that moment. A voice sounded behind him, and was calling him brother. Keith turned around, the voice sounded a lot like his litter-mate, Kedge, but what his eyes saw was far from being the black doom of his twin's pelt. A white figure stood speechless, staring at him, and those eyes, Keith recognized them. "Harrey?" Keith called surprised. The boy had grown loads since he'd last seen him up in the North, and was now a fully grown wolf.

"Harrey? is that you?" Keith couldn't believe what his eyes were showing him. "How on earth did you get this far south?" he said as he ran to greet his little brother with a lick and a dancing tail behind him. Harrey, aside from his mother and Kedge were the only few wolves he actually cared about, and finding one of them was something he thought would never happen again.

The moment Keith's nose touched his brother's fur to confirm that he was really there, his heart raced in glee. Harrey had only been a pup of no more than a month when he'd had to leave the Northern lands, and it was just impressive how much he'd grown since.

"Of course I'm here! Where else could I go if not south?" the Northerner barked before licking his brother's face again affectionately. "Why did you even leave the North, Harrey? Did that B... Did our sister tell you to leave?" he asked as he grew angry. Liv, Keithen's littermate had taken over the pack when their father died, stabbing him and Keithen in the back in a hurry to "clean the pack" from "the evil that lived in him" (Bane), and Keith had no other choice than to leave his family behind, fearing that if he stayed, his sister would do the same she did with father to the rest of their family.

A growl grew rumbling in the northerner's chest as he heard that his story had repeated once again. The madness that had grown in his sister's head had reached a paranoid point. Keith silently cursed his sister for what she had done. There was nothing he could do now, nor did he care about her anymore, his life in the arctic had faded away in his heart and here he had something here worth fighting for, a life he had built on his own.

"But, Is mother alright? And Alice? Do you think they'll be safe with Liv?" Bane asked nervously. If there was something he did remember from his life in the arctic was his loving mother, and although he didn't have any intentions of going back north he needed to know that Liv wouldn't do the same she had done to two of her brothers to her own mother. He knew that Liv only wanted the power of being Alpha, and that mother didn't pose a threat to her leadership, but it was only natural to fear for her well being when her leader was a tyrant.