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Sora did her best to cheer Veronica up by letting Veronica lean on her shoulder. Her fur had started to become stained and soaked with tears but at least Veronica was starting to feel better. It was a good thing that Lillian fell asleep. Sora did not want her to see Veronica like this and was sure that Veronica did not want anyone besides Sora around to see her crying.

Eventually, Veronica had calmed down and dried her tears. "Sorry," she started to say but Sora gently told her not to be sorry about it. "You don't have to apologize to me, I know." Both wolves were in their wolf forms now, so Sora cautiously placed her head on top of Veronica's. This was to let Veronica know that Sora wasn't going to leave her like Axel did. Aside from this there was not much else that Sora could do.

She couldn't help but think about what she should do about Gabriel and Justin when they returned. She knew that she loved Justin with all of her heart but not only did she not know how to explain this to Gabriel, she had no clue how Justin would react to the news that Sora and Gabriel dated a year ago. Unfortunately, she had a horrible feeling that Justin was having a hard time accepting this. Sora hoped that Justin would believe her when she stated that she chose to be with him, not Gabriel.

Sora walked out of the cave. At last Veronica was asleep after such a hard day. Sora had, unintentionally brought up thoughts of Axel that Veronica had not wanted to remember. It had taken her a while to calm down. When she had calmed down, Sora thanked Veronica for healing her injuries. Now, Sora walked out and started to travel through the landscape. Eventually, she found a forest in the middle of nowhere. It reminded her of the past. It was her pained past, but it was hers.

"I wonder what I should say to Justin when they return. Or Gabriel, for that matter. I should head back before Veronica panics. I told her that I would not leave her alone, so I need to return." Sora howled once and raced away, towards the cave.

After returning, Sora curled up and tucked her nose into her tail. She decided to be outside. It was cooler there and the cave was too warm for her. Sora had pretty long fur at this time. She fell asleep with her paw resting on a white flower, resembling the Lunar Flower she was looking for. Sadly, it only resembled it, but Sora could show her pack so they would get an idea what the real Lunar Flower looked like. Would she ever find the real Lunar Flower, or had they all been destroyed? The young she-wolf did not know for sure.

This silent forest was nothing like the one that she had known, but at least it was a forest. One day she might even catch a deer. Sora could always smell them somewhere nearby, but she wondered if she had enough skill to bring one down by herself. Another day, she would try. Food was getting scarcer again here. Walrus was harder to get now and Sora had never learned how to kill one before. Also, this was very risky for any wolf, especially for Sora since she had just recovered not too long ago. This young multifured she-wolf would most likely drown before she learned the skill. Only one wolf had learned this skill and survived that she knew of. That would be Gabriel.

Someday she would try to learn that skill but for now, she would wait for the male wolves of the pack to return. Every night, she would travel to the ledge next to the forest and howl. The wolves that left would have to travel back through this point, so Sora listened for a reply. So far, she had not heard a reply. Maybe this was a nostalgic feeling, but she decided to pick one white flower each night after she howled. Sora figured that she was just counting the days that Justin had been gone. She missed him a lot now and wished she knew how Justin would react when he returned home. This place had become like home to Sora since she had been here but this did not make it any simpler to tell Justin about everything that she needed to. It was going to be a long night when he got back...

During the days that he had been gone, she had paced from the top of the valley to the bottom and edge of the valley, hoping to see something, anything that told her the current position of the pack. This went on for quite some time until the day came that Sora paced across a frozen patch of water and fell in because she had worn the ice too thin with her continuous and unrelenting pacing. With a yelp, Sora fell into the deep waters and soon found the ice closing over her head. Luckily, she found some thiner ice and broke through before she could drown.

Afterwards, she lay panting on the snow covered shore now in the shallow end with the ice cold water washing over her already drenched fur. Needless to say, the ice cold water cleared her head a little. She knew that she could not keep going on like this any longer.'Pacing like this will only make me go insane, if I haven't already,' Sora thought to herself as she shook out her fur and fluffed it up a little bit to warm herself.

When she came back after her night routine, the brown wolf trotted back with the same type of white flower in her jaws. As she came close to the cave's entrance, Sora had a bad feeling that something was not right in the cave. Something did not smell quite right, then she realized what it was...Lillian was ill and Veronica had the smell of sickness on her, though Sora could tell that Veronica was treating Lillian and she had not fallen ill.

'If she stays inside and never comes out to get some food or water though, she will become ill. She'll exhaust herself if Veronica continues at this rate,'Sora told herself as she walked away. She would be gone for a while, since the cool air and icy water had helped to clear her jumbled thoughts. They needed food and Lillian would need some sort of herb to make her feel better.

Sora would come back in three days with all the herbs and berries she could find while searching for food. This young wolf could go without food for nearly a month, so she would last for a while. The young pup, on the other hand, would die without some food soon but Sora knew that Lillian would die sooner if she failed to find any helpful herbs or berries for her. She howled softly at the entrance and left on her journey for the herbs and berries that would keep Lillian alive.

It had taken Sora one day to find all of the herbs and berries in the surrounding areas. She had needed to dig far down into the snow to find them all, but it was worth it if this saved Lillian's life. It took her two days to bring everything back to the cave's entrance. Most of it was piled next to the side of the cave's entrance.

The last of the three nights was the time when Sora decided to track down deer, which was her favorite meal but this was not the reason why she was tracking them. They were a large meal and they should be much easier to kill than a walrus. Though, to be honest, Sora had never caught one by herself or attempted it alone. This time she would catch one for sure. Her ribs started to show through her thick coat but unless her fur was drenched and clinging to her frame, hardly anyone could tell that she was beginning to starve.

Sora dragged a large deer across the snow, towards the den. This was the last one. The young wolf had been fortunate enough to take down not just one deer, but five. They had probably never seen a wolf in their whole life which was most likely why they just stood and stared at her. They happenned to be too slow to escape Sora's fangs, or at least the five that she killed for food.

Now, the mixed brown wolf brought one of the deer close to the entrance and uttered a soft bark sort of like a woofing sound, one that was instinctual for Sora. She was calling Lillian to the food, a sound that a she-wolf would use to call her pups over to eat, but Sora did not know that since she had never had any pups of her own. After calling into the cave, Sora collapsed at the cave's entrance from exhaustion and from a deep gash on her shoulder.

Her old injury had been reopened by a grizzlie bear. Sora had fought off three bears bringing the deer back. One had got her healing injury on her shoulder, reinjuring it. Three of the deer were for Veronica and Lillian, two were for Sora because she needed to keep her strength up to protect them. Most of the deer were covered in deep snow so the bears would not eat them and the other two lay by the entrance of Veronica's cave. As Sora lay on the snow panting, her belly fur touching the ground,Sora hoped that she had not gotten these for nothing.