Chaper 1-
http://feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=9411.msg130712#msg130712Glimmer sat and watched the sun set, swallowed up by the snowy horizon. She shivered against the cold, but her thick, sandy brown fur kept her mostly warm. Winter was coming to a close, she knew, and the packs should be celebrating. With a sigh, she remembered the hollow eyes of the Swift Pack's beta, Mist. Pity struck had stricken her like a wave when she'd seen how Mist's tail had dragged on the snow, her head hanging with misery.
Her thoughts were carried away with the wind when a bark sounded in her ears. She whipped around and lifted her tail happily. A familiar wolf white as the snow sprinted towards her. His amber eyes shone and his tail waved against the wind.
"Hello, Glimmer," He padded closer and touched her scruff with his nose, which was cold and damp. Glimmer stepped away.
"Your nose is frozen, Icewind! How is your nose not dripping Icicles?" She yipped. The white wolf laughed, and she nudged him playfully.
"How is Mist doing?" She couldn't help asking. Icewind's tail lowered, and he blinked sadly. Glimmer regretted her question, and her own tail stopped wagging.
"S-she's not doing well." He muttered. "Ever since Fang died, she's stopped hunting, stopped training the pups. . . she hardly ever leaves her den." He exhaled slowly, mourning for his lost alpha and brokenhearted beta. Then he turned to face Glimmer, pricking his white ears.
"What about Dark?"
Glimmer winced. Now it was her turn.
"He's. . . the same. You know. He's been working hard to expand our territory to the West."
"The West? That territory is useless. The elk herds never even look in that direction!" Icewind tilted his large head.
"I know," she said. "He just wants more power." A picture of her alpha came into his mind, his glowing eyes, his fur darker than the night, and his arrogant expression.
"He's not still chasing after you, is he?" Icewind growled a little.
"No," Glimmer lied. She didn't want her companion to come and attack her alpha out of jealousy. She shivered at the thought.
Icewind was about to ask her what was wrong, but she was saved by a howl that peirced the air. He leaped to his paws.
"My pack." He said. He sprinted away, for they would come looking for him if he did not join them. Glimmer's heart sank as she watched him leave, his pelt blending into the snow. She stood there for a moment more, her breath forming clouds in front of her. Then a howl came up from her own pack, and she, too, turned away.
Little did she notice the small pup, wimpering under a rock and trembling from fear as well as the cold.
"Mother?" she whined, "when are you coming back?"
