Otter Creek Falling to pieces

She managed a grin when Junior teased her. She didn't think she was crazy like their sibling was but the thought did occur to her that her mind might not be in the right place. The dreams had started some time ago, shortly after Kisu revealed the truth of her birth. "Maybe she was a freak," Saēna speculated. It would make sense in the context of her dreams. That her mother would name her after some disgusting bird dog seemed ludicrous.

"I never knew anything about her, so it might be true," she said with a grin and a wrinkle of her nose as her paw slid in some riverside mud. "Maybe they just said she died so no one would know that we hatched from eggs." Maybe that's why Pura is so dead inside, she wondered, for a moment actually believing that Pied might have been something other than a normal wolf.