Duskfire Glacier from the endless dream

This was better. No more cringe-worthy posturing from Bazi as she tried to overcome the fact that youth and leadership were uneasy bedfellows. Now she was just a wolf, which she was rather a dab hand at after nearly two years of daily practice.

"Slowly," she complained, bumping her nose against Kaskara's chin. The offer of food made her mouth water. Bazi would have to accept in order to make it back home on her own four feet; it was far less humiliating to take food from her packmates now than wait until they had to physically drag her across the Teekon Wilds. "I will owe you so many carcasses when my leg is healed.. so many. Yes, please - thank you. I never want to see another fish." There were plenty of rabbits in the forest, but they were much too fast for a cripple to catch.