After she rested for about an hour, she got up and continued back to Nome.

When she finally got to the town she headed straight for her father's boat, but she found no one there.

"Guess he's out," said Aleu to herself. "No problem. I'll just go see momma."

She hurried over to her mom's house. She found her and Balto lying on the front porch. Jenna spotted her coming towards them.

"Aleu?" she said in surprise.

Balto looked over at where Jenna was looking and was equally shocked. "Aleu?"

"Hi, mamma. Hi, daddy," said Aleu. "I'm back!"

Balto and Jenna got up and ran to Aleu. They nuzzled her and started asking her a whole bunch of questions all at once, like "When did you get back?" or "How did you get here?" Aleu didn't catch all the questions, but she did notice that her father was wearing a collar, which was odd.

"Hey, daddy, what's with the collar?" she said, gesturing to the collar with her paw.

"Balto glanced down at the dark green collar around his neck and then back at Aleu. "Oh, yeah, I have a human now."

Aleu's eyes widened in surprise. "You do? How did that happen?"

Balto grinned. "That's not the best part. He's a pilot. I've flown in a plane."

"Wow, what else have I missed?" asked Aleu.

"Well," said Jenna. "Your father and I have had another litter of pups."

Aleu smiled. "Wow, congratulations. So I have a whole new bunch of little brothers and sisters now? Where are they?"

"Well, they were all adopted a while ago. We can tell you where they live now."

"So I guess there weren't any wolf like ones like me this time, huh?"

Balto and Jenna looked at each other. "Actually, there were four that looked kind of like wolves?"

Aleu was confused. "Wait, they were adopted even though they looked like wolves?"

Balto and Jenna nodded.

"It was a surprise for me to," said Balto.

"Oh," said Aleu, trying to hide a frown. "That's… good. Then I guess I really am just the unlucky one." She sighed. "Gosh, my life sucks." She turned and started walking away.

"Aleu, wait!" called Jenna.

Aleu looked back at her parents. "Suddenly I'm not feeling so well. I'll go back to daddy's boat to lie down." Then she remembered. "Oh, right. You don't live there anymore. Oh well, I'll just go there anyway."

She walked off to the abandoned boat and fell asleep inside from exhaustion.