Phoenix Maplewood I couldn’t sleep a wink

So sorry for unexplained absence! I`m back with a vengeance :)

Hawk suppressed an angry chuff. "I`m twel- sorry, a year old. And sunhigh is what my parents taught me; Saena said things have different names in the Teekon Wilds...Oh, yes, day was one. And night, and year."

He muttered the names lowly. "And in my birth Pack, I was roaming at night before 10 moons anyway."

He nervously kneaded the ground with silvery paws, each dripping hair outlined in the moonlight dappling the ground.

"And as for what I`m doing out here...I - I don`t really think the wolves around here would trust me quite yet. I`ll just stay on the borders, respectfully, hunting, not messing around in rivers..." he started to gabble a bit before composing himself. "Ahem. The point is, I don`t even smell like you wolves now. I..." he sighed.

The pup that was undeniably still inside him, yapped and pawed to the surface of his mind, taking control away from the amiable, smooth adolescent wolf that Hawk imagined controlled his every movement. It crept into his voice, wavering and yipping.

"I`m scared."