Stone Circle Come and meet the babies

A few short weeks back, a summoning howl like Valette's wouldn't have registered. Burr would have needed to be herded to the meeting by his mother, having never experience a pack rally before. Now, he lifted his head and his ears flipped up to attention the moment Valette's long howl rang out over the pack territory. Part of it was that he was older now than he had been a few short weeks back, and part of it was his new fear of breaking the rules and being attacked again.

His paws were moving before Burr even consciously realized it, and he picked his way through the territory toward the heart of Easthollow. Somewhere along the way, Burr picked up the scent of his mother and fell in line with her trail. He wandered away from it several times—he needed more practice with tracking, that was clear—but he eventually arrived at the meeting site where he saw Illecebra.

Burr picked up his steps, cantering toward his mother, only to dig his nails into the ground and come to a screeching halt when he spotted the second wolf behind her. The pup's eyes went wide and his tail immediately pressed down under his legs. Illecebra and Mawk had done their best to explain Valette's anger that day, but it had done nothing to calm Burr's terror. Now that he was face-to-face with the monster wolf with the only separation being several yards of open space, all of Burr's horror came rushing back, and before he knew what he was doing, he was crouched against the ground in a severe and instinctual display of submissive fear.