The days continued to drag on in the dim and overehelming darkness of the dungeon, and seeing as I had all.but bathed in the sunlight the other day my reality was shattered. The isolation and lack of light was beginning to wear on me even more, and I felt myself slipping into a phase of lethargy. However, amidst the despair I held then, a brief ray of hope shone through one fateful day. It was during one of our brief conversations that Wally, my only friend in this dark place, got some joyful, unexpected news. It was a morning like any other, and I was tired before the day even began. The day before, we had been joking about release, and making comments on what to do if we were released before the other, and it had been easy to laugh about it, sinv we thought neither of us would leave anytime soon. A guard approached our cells, his footsteps echoing eerily in the corridor.Wally, who had struck up a friendship with one of the guards through their brief interactions, had been hande

A week had passed since the day Alpha Dan had visited and tauntef me with my captivity on the training grounds. Each day after that, he had come to the training grounds to watch me train his pack members, and it had been a constant struggle for me to maintain my composure and keep myself focused on the training. On one hand, I was doing a great job keeping myself together whike I trained the guards, but on the other, my heart ached for Brad, my pack and the freedom I had lost. More hope was getting lost as the days blurred into one another, and I had almost given up hope on Wally every going to my pack and helping me out. I found that I had gotten the respect of the pack warriors, and I was starting to get comfortable in the pack. It was a small shift in my psyche, almost unnoticeable at first, but it grew with each new day, and every time I caught myself I cursed at the gods for letting me get comfortable in a place that did not want me. I found myself waking up in the mornings wi

With our plan in motion, my pack members, led by Brad and I, split into two groups. The primary mission of the first half was to evacuate the members of Alpha Dan's pack from the burning grounds and guide them to safety. It was a chaotic move to make, since I had a vendetta against their pack leaders, but it was a necessary endeavor to ensure no one got hurt in the spreading fire. Meanwhile, I, along with Wally and Brad, ventured into the depths of the dungeon to free the prisoners who had been locked away for far too long. There was no doubt in my mind that most of them had even been locked up unjustly, and they would be left alone to burn in the heat of the dungeon, unaware of what was going on. It was a task that was especially important to me, having lived in the darkness of the dungeon for so long, and I was determined to right the wrongs that had been committed by Alpha Dan's pack against the people who lived in the orisons. The dungeon was a grim and oppressive place, with c

The night in the cave passed with tension still hanging in the air between both packs. Our failed attempt to locate Alpha Dan and Alpha Leon had left us with a sense of frustration and unease, and an unspoken disdain now lay over the entire pack, most especially the members who had ratted out Alphas Dan and Leon. Despite the cooperation of some former members of their pack, the two Alphas had slipped through our grasp once again, and it left me infuriated. The night before, when we were having dinner, the members who had remained loyal to Alpha Dan had only pushed their food around, only taking in scraps of food and chewing slowly, as though they expected poison. As morning light filtered into the cave, we were greeted by the sight of our new, mixed group. It was funny to me how just the day before, I had been sure of the pack members that I had, and now all of a sudden I had more than I knew what to do with. Some of the ones who had remained loyal to Alpha Dan before had now made

We continued that way for over a week, the journey taking its toll on everyone. People were cranky, and sleep had become a foreign thing for my elders and I, but I was proud that we were almost home. What was left of the journey back to the Safe Water pack was less than an hour long–I recognized the body of water I saw by tye magical plant I saw. It was still early days, yet while everyone else slept or tried to, I would stay away, daydreaming of what my home would look like now. Brad would have been forced to move into the pack house in my absence, and I wondered if he had even bothered to decorate the room and make it into something beautiful for my arrival. I was going to leave all of them there and get a headstart to the pack the next morning, then I remembered how understaffed the pack was, and how much of a struggle it was to find pack members who were healthy, knew they way, or weren't ill in any capacity when they were on their way here. She sat down with her feet folded b