Blacktail Deer Plateau Born for leaving

"She left after Peregrine said he was leaving," he elaborated. "She said she didn't feel like she belonged anymore." Sadness leaked into Koda's voice as he spoke. Why hadn't he been enough for her? "I tried to talk her out of it, but her mind was made up."

Koda breathed a sigh before continuing. "She wanted me to go with her, but I just didn't feel right about leaving the pack at a time when I'd be needed." The plateau wolves had been kind enough to take him in, and he wasn't about repay them by ditching them as soon as things looked bad.