-We only notice what something has meant to us when we no longer have it-


Lina quickly realized that her mother was right, the other wolves didn't like Trino at all. They said it would be bad luck to have one of his with you. Lina and the other baby wolves didn't understand their uproar. Trino looked almost like her, he was just a little darker, actually almost deep black. Otherwise he ate like her, drank like her, slept like her, walked like her and talked like her, on the whole he was almost no different from them. Except for the color, but each wolf in the pack was a different color, Nacho was snow white although his father was dark gray and his mother light gray with a slight brown tinge. No one in the pack was interested in the color of the other, but it seemed to bother Trino's coat color.
Trino had meanwhile forgotten that he wanted to go back to the tree as quickly as possible. He had been with them for over a week and Lina still hadn't found out how the adult wolves didn't like him.One evening she was lying in the small clearing with her mother. Trino was already asleep and so Lina and her mother only looked at the moon together. "The full moon is coming soon," Lina remarked. "Yes, the last autumn moon. Tonight at the peak is the celebration." Lina looked at her mother puzzled. It was her first autumn and, as she had heard, winter was not a nice time of year. "Why are we celebrating a celebration when it will soon be cold?" She asked her mother. "For some it is a celebration of joy, for others it is a celebration of mourning," her mother replied. Lina looked at her questioningly. Her mother turned her head away from the moon and smiled at her: "Actually, this story is only told to older young wolves who already know more about the laws of nature." She paused, then continued. "But you will surely push me until I tell you. That's why it is probably better if I tell you now.Many innumerable turns of the year ago there were two races of wolves. The brown wolves from the east, about which we know next to nothing, and the shadow wolves that lived here and which then almost exterminated themselves.
Well, the two races of wolves lived next to each other without ever quarreling. But some brown wolves and direwolves fell in love and so a third breed was created. The direwolves were against these relationships and also against the new race, so they drove out the brown wolves, which now live in the east across the great hills. So now the direwolves and the new race called penumbra were at war. On the last autumn moon, Tornus managed to overthrow the direwolf King Ramaser with a very courageous penumbra. The direwolves withdrew and became fewer and fewer. Eventually they fell into a dispute over the few territories. Until finally a wolf named Gorun came. He managed to bring the warring packs together and bring about peace.His grandson Samunir wanted to resume the old plan and kill the penumbral wolves. Before he could realize his plan, he was killed by his son. This took power and gave the direwolves a life in peace. Some wolves were not that enthusiastic about his actions and found more and more support over time. Even from the shadow king himself who had led many people to their deaths. He's the king of the people, well, of a part of them. In any case, these other wolves were devising a plan to kill Samunir's son. But he found out about her plan and disappeared one night. This is how the leader of this group of wolves came to power. His name was Gasjan. Gasjan started a great battle against the penumbral wolves. But the penumbra wolves had not been idle; they had trained and were far superior to the shadow wolves in their numbers. And when Gasjan saw this he disappeared and left the direwolves alone with their fate.The direwolves surrendered and got their own territory, but only with the promise that they would never attack the penumbra again.
For this reason we celebrate the last autumn moon, because this agreement was reached on the last autumn moon at the end of the year. "
Lina thought for a moment, then asked: "And who do we belong to?" Her mother had to smile. "We, Lina, belong to the penumbra and our entire pack. With one exception ... Trino." "And Trino is one of the ...?" "The shadow wolves. That is the reason why many do not like him. Most of us are as hostile to direwolves as they are to us. "Lina was silent. So that was what bothered the adult wolves about Trino. Somewhere she could understand it, but Trino couldn't help it. Just as she or Nacho could do something about it.
She thought about it for a while until her eyes closed and she fell asleep.
She was awakened by a slight nudge."I still want to sleep," she grumbled sleepily. "Don't go back to sleep. Come on, get up." Slowly she straightened up. Look at her mother sleepily. "Come on now," she said, "through the small opening." "Why why?" "Go ahead, we don't have much time." Lina pushed through the small opening, Trino followed her and, to her astonishment, made it too to force her mother through the narrow opening. A howl could be heard in the distance. Lina's mother replied and immediately ran off. Lina and Trino followed her.
Again and again one heard howling, which Lina's mother directed. But after a while there was no more howling. Lina's mother stopped and seared her muzzle to the ground to sniff. Slowly she straightened her head and turned her head. Fog had appeared all around them.
Suddenly, Nacho's panting mother appeared in front of them and Nacho behind her. "Where do we have to go?" Lina's mother asked Nacho's mother. "I don't know when you get lost in the fog."A whimper could be heard and a blood-covered wolf appeared next to them." Kaicho! ", Nacho's mother shouted." Run, "he managed to get out before he collapsed dead.
Nacho's mother didn't wait long and ran in the opposite direction. "Wait!", Lina's mother called after her, but she had already disappeared into the fog. "You wait here," she said to Trino, Lina and Nacho dressed. Then she started running too and was gone immediately afterwards. "I don't like this here," objected Nacho. "Neither do me," said Trino. "Well, who are you such scaredy rabbits since then let's follow them", Lina said haughty to cover up her own fear.
They walked through the fog with no idea where. "Where are we", Nacho asked anxiously. "I don't know," Lina confessed meekly. Suddenly they heard a whimpering howl. Nacho recognized it immediately. "Papa!" He called and ran. “Nacho wait.” Lina and Trino ran after him.
Nacho stood in front of a wolf corpse."Papa, papa. Why?" He whined. "Nacho?" Lina asked carefully. It suddenly howls, a pitiful, regretful howl. "Don't!" Lina shouted, but it was already too late in the vicinity you could hear the clatter of hooves and loud voices.
With a rustle, Lina turned around behind them was a tall man with an arrow at the ready. Aimed directly at her.
The man let go of the arrow he whirred straight towards her until a large body pressed between her and the arrow. In the next moment it fell limp to the ground. "Mom? Mom!" Lina exclaimed in horror. Her mother turned her head to look at her. "Run," she whispered before her eyes glazed over. Nacho's mother appeared before her. "Go run," she called. Lina ran after the others. She had closed her eyes, but still some tears rolled out of them.


I dedicate the Kapi to my first clerk:
~ Sakura259 ~