Arrow Lake Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

She rolled her eyes and huffed a little. Well, I wouldn't exactly say that, she said, expression darkening. We ran a pack together, and then he disappeared, leaving me to deal with things when a blizzard destroyed everything, she continued, swallowing back the anger and hurt that always accompanied thoughts of the glacier. I saw him before he left, but we didn't really end things on good terms. Her gaze fell back to her children as she sought to pull herself from the dark place that she always fell into when she though about Sia.

His last words, although probably meant to reassure her, had her flattening her ears. How is it Sia's fault? Taki asked. He wasn't even there. Despite her anger with her older brother, she wouldn't sit here and let Sadiq try to blame him for something that wasn't his fault.