He had already given Rissa a bellyful of pups, as was proper for the senior male and female of the pack. Much worse than that, she had broken one of the most important rules of the Wide Valley, the rules that protect our bloodlines. She was not a senior wolf, and therefore had no right to have pups. But my mother never should have whelped us. It’s considered unnatural and repulsive, and most wolves would rather chew off their own paws than hurt a pup.
That’s the real reason Ruuqo came to kill my brother, my sisters, and me in the faint light of the early morning four weeks after we were born. It is said that such a wolf holds the power to destroy not only her pack, but all of wolfkind. The legends say that when the blood of the Wide Valley wolves mingles with the blood of the wolves outside the valley, the wolf who bears that blood will stand forever between two worlds.
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