Paws the same hue of the snow under them pounded rhythmically across the tundra. Wind rippled through the long fur of the beautiful wolfess to whom the paws belonged. Her pale green eyes glittered in the moonlight and her pelt danced with the shimmering light. Her name was Snowbreeze, daughter of Song and Kuoi. Though she’d never even known her parents, she referred to herself in this manner. The beautiful wolfess had a tragic past…both her parents had died only moments after her birth, she’d been raised by a kind-hearted fox who’d recently lost her pups to rabies. But then the fox had died and Snowbreeze was alone yet again. She ran from place to place with no destination in mind…although she would like to find a pack to settle down in one day.

Movement caught her gaze and she spotted a snowshoe hare a few yards away. The white femme licked her teeth; it’d been far too long since her last meal. Slowly she crept up upon the hare and when she was in range, she pounced and dug her teeth into the small creature’s neck. It died instantly and Snowbreeze began tearing into the flesh, her ravenous hunger finally ceasing. ‘It’s stringy and old…but it’s much better than nothing,’ she thought to herself as she demolished the small prey in a couple of bites.

The blood had stained her muzzle red so she began to clean it with the pure white snow around her. After that was done, the wolfess padded softly over to a small pool of frozen water. Grabbing a rock between her strong teeth, she dropped it on the ice. It cracked slightly and a trickle of water flowed from the crack. Snowbreeze drank contentedly as she listened to the distant birdsong. Then she heard something else…paw steps, coming from behind her…they were defiantly lupine. The ivory femme whirled around ready to confront the wolf that was there.

Snowbreeze stared back at the gray wolf who questioned her, wondering why he was so angry…what had she done wrong. The usually even-tempered, kind wolfess became uncharacteristically angry. “What the hell is Baridiganda and who are who to tell me where I can and can’t hunt?” her pale green eyes blazed with fire. No wolf could tell her where she could hunt, or accuse her of stealing. Prey didn’t belong to one group, or one group of wolves but to all wolves who walked under Lupus.

“As for what I was thinking…I haven’t eaten in over a week, I saw a rabbit, i was starving, so I decided to catch it and eat it. Would you rather I’d died?” Snowbreeze narrowed her eyes and waited for an aresponse.

"Do you really think I care about your magnificent and wondrous pack?” SnowBreeze snarled, baring her teeth in his face, “You don’t care for any wolf other than those in your pack. That’s why I’m a loner…I can’t stand that arrogance. And…as a matter of fact, you can’t tell me where not to hunt. I hunt wherever I please, no wolf can tell me otherwise. Prey and land don’t belong to any one wolf…but to all wolves to share amongst themselves. This is Lupus’s wish.” Snowbreeze realized she was repeating the words of the traveling shaman wolf she’d met a year back.

Her pale green eyes narrowed as she continued to stare at the gray wolf, “You pack wolves…you’re all arrogant, thinking you’re better than nonpack wolves. This will be your down fall one day…mark my words.” Although she said these things, Snowbreeze still longed to get a taste of pack life…but this wolf was infuriating her.

Snowbreeze sighed; maybe she’d been a bit too outright. “I have an idea…what would you say to letting me join your pack temporarily just to let me see what it’s like? Maybe I could teach you to share the earth...or maybe my view on pack life would change after living in one for a while…” the pure white femme broke off, realizing how weird she must sound. Embarrassed, she looked down at her snowy white paws, wondering how he’d react to this.

Snowbreeze wasn’t sure he’d accept her into the pack with how fierce she’d been to him, but she had to try. She wanted to know what it felt like to live with other wolves and coexist as one unit.

Snowbreeze glared icily at the newcomer, annoyed to be answering the same questions yet again, "My name is Snowbreeze...my buisness here is I am feeding myself because I'm starving. As I've already told this pathetic disgrace of a wolf here...you pack wolves are so arrogant...pretending you own land. Land isn't for one wolf to own, nor is prey. It should be shared." Snowbreeze narrowed her pale green eyes, daring him to challange her.

"Yet...maybe my beliefs on pack life are somewhat skewed since I've never lived in one. And perhaps both I and Baridiganda-Zaburi Pack would benefit if I temporarily or possibly permanently joined your pack. I could teach you to be more sharing of the earth and maybe you could teach me why you believe what you do. Since you are the alpha...I assume you can decide now if I can join or not," the pure white wolfess felt no regret for tresspassing nor for stealing prey. She felt it was Lupus's will that his wolves shared what was given to them. Yet, the wolfess did long for a taste of packlife...to feel bonds of friendship and kinship that she'd never really felt before.