Taipa

The white vixen was finally strong again, her last fight with Bane many moons ago. But still she had not told her mother, or her father for that matter, the truth. She had told them she had gone to visit Bane... and that his packmates had attacked.

This was not entirely true, of course. It was Bane who had attacked. But she could not tell Ma and Da that. They were just learning to be happy again.

She twitched her single ear experimentally, feeling the muscles that once supported the missing one twitch as well. She had been twitching them for several days, like an itch you just can't scratch that keeps coming back. Finally, her lone ear caught sound of her parents and the new pups. Listening carefully, she got up and took off in that direction, a low bark letting them know she was coming.