Northstar Vale And I tried to do the best that I could

The time drew nearer for her children to arrive, Viskani had produced enough litters to know when it was approaching. Her den had been dug out to accomodate them from the start, so now all that was left was to collect nesting materials. It was not necessary, but she had found that additional bedding was helpful when the puppies were young and vulnerable to the weather.

Leaving the Montagne settlement once more, she searched the trees for dry materials, which admittedly was not much this time of year, to pick up along the way. Later on she would take some pelts from rabbits in the caches as well to accompany the one gifted to her by Seal. Her first litter in the vale, her first litter in her own pack; she wanted them to live a perfect, comfortable life.

Her home was growing prosperous day by day with more wolves joining them, prey returning with the spring, and the clouds clearing to shine down upon them. She felt good about what was to come.

Everything was going to go her way this time.

he had been napping in the boughs of some tree or other, snoring at length for an hour or three, when a cacophony of cackling made him thrust open his wings and sit upright.

a murder of crows was in the process of descending to neighboring trees.

the violent awakening earned a less than flattering reply from the vulture. not too much, though. never wise to piss off a horde of many little beaks.

he launched from the tree after that, coasting high over a meadow flanked by stone - and saw, roaming in the grass, one of the many wolves to call the area their own.