Bearclaw Valley there is nothing you can do for them,

Well, actually, it could wait a while. He wouldn't mind a nap, but it wasn't meant to be.

There was Merrick, gesturing at the valley and then roughly pushing his cubs up and away from Astara. Aventus clacked his jaws together in protest as he stumbled to his paws, but he couldn't deliberately disobey his sire. He no longer knew why, because nothing significant had happened thus far, but he retained the belief in his bones that Merrick would do him great harm if he was disobedient.

So he went off into the meadow at a tired lope, canting his head to see where his sister was going. He bent to sniff a clump of sweetgrass, then meandered over to a large, flat rock, which he urinated on. In Merrick's presence, he dared not attempt to lift his leg to do so, although sometimes when he was alone he would make attempts to stand with authority when he did his business.