Moonspear in the dark star of night

More questions gave her better structure, so now that she was in this deep, answers were beginning to roll. "Yes, because along with age, if times are difficult like prey is scarce or any other stresses--even if they are unseen, the cycle may not complete then. Nature has a good sense of it," she detailed as she nodded alongside her strides, because it decided when it happened, and no sooner. 

Flicking an ear, she thought to shirk at her use of viable male, yet it simply summed it best, short of having to explain to her daughter about.. the process itself, virility, and the like in detail. "Viable as in... Of breeding age, healthy, then strong and worthwhile enough to warrant those genes continuing on to his pups," she said. In here came many determining factors, too, but these were everywhere, in all things. "That is where females should be choosy, for why put such huge energy into raising weak young?" She'd instill this onto her girls, as her mother had; the strength of the line was in the female's control, or so she believed and felt wholly, looking sidelong at her own. "For many reasons, potentially. It would not be wise for those without support of a capable pack, or those lacking the rank to breed freely depending on the customs of a pack and its Alphas--since non-alpha puppies born can be a delicate subject depending on where and when," Ame went on with. "So much of it all is very, very circumstantial." And above all, not to be taken lightly. More questions or not, she was prepared to weather them as she moseyed her trail onward.