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Summer's eyes widened a bit in surprise at the girl's easy response to his statement. He knew how very hard many found it to let go when they lost someone close to them, and the many negative ways they could react. No one had ever actually agreed with him that it wasn't anything to be upset over. He gave her a curious look that was touched with wonder, but quickly let it pass as she posed a question to him.

"My mom died not long after I was born," the Ostrega found himself saying although he'd told very few in his lifetime, "I traveled with my father for a while so that he could teach me how to survive on my own and how to live as a pack wolf. I didn't find out until the day he left me that it was because he knew that he wouldn't be alive much longer."

The memory of Dhani leaving him at the base of the Sunspire played in his mind, the emotion that shook his voice, the sorrow and love, and the odd gleam of peace in his eyes as he spoke of leaving this world and returning to the side of his beloved. "He couldn't live without my mom," Summer added gently. Yes, the many years his father spent on the earth had taught him everything there was to know about survival in the wilderness, on your own or in a pack, but when he had met Summer's mother, he'd learned in an instant the one thing that he could not survive.

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