the pack. She had come to Paradise last winter, humble and submissive, and embedded herself in the pack. In the early days, no one could have been more devoted and helpful than she; all humility was forgotten as soon as she knew her place in the pack was assured.
Tsume and Toboê had played tired and curled up between Ooki and Ken. Close the eyes of many wolves.The high night sky stretched over paradise, black as raven's plumage; the stars shone and sparkled, innumerable and densely scattered. The silence was filled with eerie noises. Leaves rustled, little mice scurried in the grass. Wildcats ran on quiet paws. The nocturnal calls of the birds of prey rang out over the paradise and the woods, floating like shadows through the darkness. All these familiar sounds did not disturb the wolves in their sleep. Most of the time they also roamed their hunting grounds at this time, but this time they had already struck their prey during the day.
Suddenly the wolves' ears began to turn back. The light wind from the north brought them vibrations in the air that startled them from sleep. Zari Kan and ashi rose, Ooki and Ken jumped up, the young wolves followed their example. With their heads cocked and their ears up, the wolves stood listening. From afar, where the neighboring pack lived, Baldo Kans and Jenna's band, came a frightened howl, softly but clearly audible.A howl faded away, only to swell up again immediately afterwards. The fur stood on the wolves, every nerve in their body vibrated.
"What's this?" exclaimed Kiba.
The puppies whined.
Interspersed with sobbing tones, like the moaning of the wind breaking on the cliffs, the sounding noises ended in a desperate cry: Danger! Danger! Fear for your life!
Zari Kan and ashi picked up the scream, the same plaintive wailing from their throats. The other many one, first Ooki and Ken, then the young wolves and Cloe and also Tsume and Toboê. Although the pups did not understand what was terrifying their protectors, they howled along with their thin voices. Raised their snouts to the black sky, the wolves passed on the warning call.
When they abandoned, they received the answer from the south, from the hunting area of ​​the next pack. The howling in the north had ceased.
The wolves from Paradise stared at each other.What does the message mean? What disaster had befallen Balto Kan's pack. A disaster that affected not only him and his flock, but every pack.? Only then, when danger threatened for all, should one make this call. So that einrudel passed it on to the other and everyone was warned.
Hige crouched under one of the bushes. the frightened howl had awakened a memory in him. He suddenly knew why it had made him so happy in a dream to run across the boundless meadow. Because before this dream he had another dream - the fearful dream of the cage, which enclosed him on all sides, which he could not jump over and from which there was no escape.