Arrow Lake queen of broken hearts

perhaps, of the litter born to antha and issorartuyok, once of atautsikut, raelle had fared better than most. they had all suffered when their sole remaining parent, their mother, went missing, but of the four, only raelle had found her in the end. she did not know where her siblings were now; she hardly remembered them.
and mom... she was gone. raelle had still been a bit too young to understand death fully, but she'd been forced to understand it. the woman who had once seemed so eternal, so constant, had simply... left. she went to sleep, having been wounded and feverish for weeks, and she did not wake again.
but she had cared for raelle to the last day, and had searched for her missing children, even as she slowly descended toward that inevitable end.
all that was left of her now was the children she had left behind. and raelle was determined to survive, even if her mother had not.
even when faced with circumstances like this one.
she had come to the lake for a bath and a drink; she certainly hadn't expected to be set upon by a vicious opportunist. a wolverine, intent on an easy meal - but raelle refused to let it be all that easy. the beast pursued her, and she made a clever show of her flight, kicking rocks and climbing rises only to turn and snap at her attacker, but fled all the same.
all the while, she had the sinking feeling that the wolverine could keep up this game much longer than she could.