Moonspear Time will explain

There is a universal moment in any spinster's life, when she faces the mirror, counts all the gray and white hair, as well as lines in her face, and realizes that her life is neither a rom-com movie, nor a sitcom with a happy ending. The belief that your better half is somewhere out there just waiting to fall in love with you is the same as believing in Santa Claus. It is nice, while it lasts, but in the end dream is just a dream and it does not change the reality. The one that tells - you are past your prime, you are not getting any younger and that it is time to reconsider the blueprint you had drawn for, how you wanted your life to turn out. 

Lele had faced that moment a month ago or so. All her life she had followed other's lead and let them decide her fate. Then it had been an eternity spent on her own, doing, what she knew best. Traveling, exploring and enjoying her freedom. For a long while this had been enough - she had never been free to choose, where to go,in her previous life as part of a nomadic family. Now she had done everything she had wanted to her heart's desire, yet it had never felt quite complete. She had entertained a thought about settling down, but after that first failed stint in romance and a couple of chance meetings never followed by a second or a third, she had come to a conclusion that meeting someone special and having a family with him or her was a lottery game. Very few drew the lucky tickets and she had never been the one to be good at gambling. 

So as yet another winter moved on and she found it more difficult to be out on her own (slight stiffness in her elbows and back had become her faithful morning companions), she decided to find a place to stay permanently and, perhaps, a place to die in as well. Lele had made a decision to no longer expect anything from her life and simply be happy in however long was given to her. So, when one of the claimed lands in the wilds caught her interest, she stopped by and howled for, whoever was in charge, to meet, greet and see, whether this would be a pack she would like to stay with for good.