(Chapter 1)
It was a beautiful day in the valley; the birds soared through the vast open blue sky. The sun had just peaked over the mountains, slowly crawling into the dens of the now united packs. It was just light enough to see the faint outline of a wolf. It was a grey and white wolf tightly curled up in a ball. It was Humphrey. He slowly opened his eye to see the sun crawling closer to him. He let out a slowly and steady breath. It was about sixty-eight degrees, but soon the sun would be high in the sky to warm things back up.
Humphrey stood up and stretched, pausing to remember the events that took place the day before. The trip home. The fun they had the war that she had prevented." She actually did it I can't believe it. "Humphrey thought to himself." She... She chose Garth over me." His eyes started to water at the thought of him losing Kate. "She was so close to me, she even howled at the moon with me on the train back. "Humphrey got up and walked to the edge of his den. It was a familiar sight, a few pine trees and a little stream ran between two of the bigger trees. Humphrey walked to the edge of the stream and looked it only to see himself alone.
Back at Kate's parents den, Eve and Winston were just getting up. Eve turned around to see Lilly and Kate lying on opposite ends of the den curled into tight balls. Eve looked at Lilly and then Kate and noticed the ground was wet around Kate's head and her fur was soaked. Eve looked over to Winston and he was at the edge of the den looking down of the cliff. About 45 feet down was the rest of the pack starting to wake up. Eve walked over to Winston and whispered, "Do you know why Kate was crying"? Winston looked over at Kate, noticed the ground and her fur, and put one and one together. He looked back at Eve, "No but I know she was not happy yesterday during the wedding, she was acting like something was bothering her". Winston said looking away from Eve back down to the pack below. Eve looked down and noticed Garth walking past some other alphas with his head down. "That's weird for an alpha, especially Garth he was the biggest alpha in the pack and never seemed down about anything "Eve thought to herself. "When she wakes up I will talk to her" Eve said, with a fake smile. "Well I have some problems to attend to today and, I still have to go talk to Tony, I will be gone for a few hours," Winston said looking back at Eve. Eve just nodded and turned to walk back into the den. Winston left to go deal with his daily responsibilities.
Eve sat down and looks at Lilly "such a beautiful young wolf you've grown to be" Eve slowly brushed Lilly's fur. She turned when she herd Kate stirring around and waking up. "Good morning dear" Eve said looking back at Kate. Kate stood up and opened her eyes. She looked horrible. Her fur was dirty and ruffled, her eyes where blood shot and irritated from all the crying the night before. Kate just sniffled and walk past her mom not saying anything. Eve stopped messing with Lilly's fur and followed Kate to the entrance of the den. Kate sat down and looked at the wolves roaming around with eye eyes looking slowly side to side, for one wolf in particular. Eve walked up and sat down next to Kate." What's wrong Kate?" Eve said at Kate. Kate never looked at her mom still looking for a wolf. "Kate" Eve said a little aggravated that Kate wasn't answering her. Kate stopped looking around and looked at her mom tears building in her eyes. "Mo...m" is all Kate got out before breaking down crying again. Eve looked down at her daughter whose face was buried in her chest. "Kate" Eve said slowly pushing her daughter out of her now tear soaked chest. Kate sniffled, and looked up." I don't know what wrong, but you're an alpha and never put your head down. It shows you're weak side." Eve said looking at Kate's red eyes. Kate was tired of listening to her mom lecture her, and got up walking down to the plain full of wolfs, to go to the stream in the woods to clean herself.
Humphrey was still sitting at the bank of the stream daydreaming. What life could have been if Kate hadn't got married? He looked back down and stood up, and walked into the steam to clean his fur. After about five minutes he came back out and shook the water out of his coat and trotted off into the woods not Sure where he was going.