Snow and cold had very little effect on the young body that dwelled under the thick coat. She moved through the wind with about as much caring towards it as she had towards just about anything else. The girl stared at the world around her from steely blue eyes that looked out from a sleek black face. Starting from the tip of her nose to the last hairs on her tail, the girl seemed to be a walking gradient. In the snow or the night she was in a constant state of fading out of existence, or fading into it.

Large paws crunched through the snow as she meandered through the common lands of Moladion. She had left the pack lands of Spirane, feeling the supressed by the ideals of ‘pack’ that permeated through the individuals. Broken and fractured, her family had been on the outskirts, barely in and barely out, of the unit of the pack, and she had felt the need to flee. The feelings of being around most of them had started to make her sick. They meant nothing to her, just as she felt she meant nothing to them. Dropped at their border one day and left. Just as the day she and her sister had been weaned. The days she had begun to fade out of existence.

A snarl began in her throat, escaping from her jaws and she snapped them shut in annoyance. Twisted senses of loyalty were reality. Around her fathers and mothers cared for their children, whereas with her it was brothers and sisters, and no one else. Pups, left in the hands of other pups, or left to die. What had happened and where had these thoughts and feeling come from? They twisted and clouded her mind, confusing and contorting until she could not tell what was right. Control had been lost and the trust in other that should have been inherent was broken. She could think of three souls in the world she could trust. Her sister, her lost brother, and herself. Staring down at her dark paws, she flexed her strong muscles to watch her claws leave tracks in the snow. The control would be her’s again.

She snorted once and continued her roaming and twining through the trees. Aimless, she made up her mind to not remain this way for long.