Bearclaw Valley they are the force between

if u have the time <3

astara had seen a change come over her children since ikkalrok had been slain, and two new whelps had been added to the fold.

astara tended to them, but they were not her own and she often did not let them forget it. @Avicus and @Aventus were always the first to receive her attention or food.

even then a coldness spread between the trio. astara had come to love her biological children fiercely, and the wedge that jammed its way unpleasantly between them had her heart stinging and head heavy. trailing after the duo's scent in the pinewood, astara searched for them, missing the days when they had loved her and she had been their world entire.