Legally Feral

Chapter 2 First Meal

*I have been in the wolf pack for a good six weeks and had been living off of mothers milk full of fat and nutrients needed to survive the winter. Mother had begun to act a bit weird when she heard the call for dinner and my sibling had been getting bigger and there teeth sharper so I had to accommodate for that by toughening up. Mother began to push us out and lead us down to the iron smell of the fresh kill. Mother went first making a path for us and a place to settle, brother and sister were gnawing on the tough flesh, but couldn't pierce it, so mother opened it for them. I sat back until mother pushed me forward over to the fresh kill. I cautiously went forward and touched the dead animal. Its blood soaking my hand. I had no desire to eat it, but mother had been weaning brother and sister so of course that included me. We were now going to have to eat this Caracas. I brought my head down to the meat where brother and sister had been chewing on it and grabbed the softer meat they had partially chewed and eatten it. It wasn't sitting well in my stomach and I ended up throwing up. Mother was worried, but Alpha just saw it as I wouldn't survive the winter. I wasn't going to give up that easily! I went back over after I had emptied my stomach and ripped into the flesh soaking my face with blood. Brother and sister went to grab my meat, but I growled at them and they backed off going after each others meal and not mine. I heard Alpha leave with a crunch of snow under his paws. I went back to eating the scraps of food left from the ravening pack and afterwards mother lead us back to the den with full bellies. My stomach was upset from the uncooked food and the bacteria infested meat, but I held my food down not knowing when I would eat again. My life in this pack was rough hard and cruel,but it was fair and equal. The pack looked out for the old and weak and they knew when they would have to leave the pack to keep it strong. They were never forced out they simple left to there own accord. A pack of wolves even accepted me,a blind, abandoned, and scorned girl into there pack of 'savage beasts' reality is harsh to those who can't accept it, but to those whose eyes see the way the world is meant to be,are strong, and just,wolves are those beings. My old pack a werewolf pack blessed by the Moongodess with the gift of the ability to turn into a wolf are the real savage beasts not the rough and rugged yet kind and understanding pioneers called wolves. I am glade to say this,I am a pioneer and I will survive I vow to protect this family with my life.*

*The next day wasn't much different from the last nor the day before that or the day before that. Except somehow the pack managed to corner an elk and kill it. Brother hadn't been doing so good. Sister constantly stealing his food so he had begun to get weak. When we went down for food sister pushed brother out of the way and away from the food. He was so weak by the smell of him. I grabbed and ripped off what I could from the carcass with my slowly getting sharper and more pointed canines and drug the meat over to him. Sister saw this and tried once more to get extra food but I didn't let her. I let a low growled form in the back of my throat warning her to lay off and she submitted to me and did. Brother was afraid to take the meat I had laid in front of him afraid I would snap at him, but I dropped it and back away going back getting some food for myself and more for brother. I gave the majority to brother to get him healthy again and after that day brother had become stronger and healthier.. Brother and sister grew up faster than me considering wolf time goes faster than human. Mother was worried I was sick or deformed in some way, but I never wavered in growing,slow to her yes,but still growing. Winter was long an harsh, but everybody made it there was miraculously enough food for everybody to stay fairly well fed. Of course only when the Alpha and older member caught the food. Brother had gotten stronger and so had sister doubling in size and leaving me in the dust. Brother challenged Alpha,but he lost. Alpha didn't demote him or send him off. He left him only with a few scars.Alpha was a wise leader and understood the balance of things. Brother would make an excellent heir,but not quiet yet.*