Blacktail Deer Plateau The show must go on [pack meeting]

Valtýr's face grew hot when Lasher took a seat besides him and bashfully looked away towards the ground. Any attention from this new pack felt awkward at best. When Dante brought the klatsch to order a wave of relief washed over the youngster who turned his ears to listen.

It turned out the rally was of a political nature. Little of what the alpha said made sense to the child, but he listened intently anyway. Something about a Caldera and a wolf named Peregrine -- two name the Sveijarn didn't know -- they would be considered separate from the Black Deer wolves, where the fireborn now resided.

Junior appeared to be in agreement with their leader's sentiments, making her opinion known with an approving yip. Val remained silent, with nothing to say and a scant understanding at best, but watched the others with interest.