Chapter Nine
Callan, whose canini pack had severed their partnership with the Storm tribe the previous year, was considering how best to move forward.
The canini had prospered during their time with the tribe, and they now found that life was not quite so easy without the partnership of humankind. True, they had rediscovered their freedom and were able to arrange their living and hunting habits in ways that best suited them, but Callan realised that all the members of his pack were out of sorts and impatient with each other. He had organised to meet Waleen, whose pack had also shared hunting with the Storm, to discover how her family fared after the break. As their new hunting grounds marched beside each other, it had been easy enough to get a message to her. This was another aspect of t
