Emma suddenly remembered it was September already, and only a few full -moons to her fourteen birth-moon, and she wept. Oliver had instructed Brooklyn to keep her gaze upon Emma, and she had been visiting more often. Her den-kins were uneasy with her frequent visits. Brooklyn noticed, but she did not care.
Two moons before Emma's birth-moon, Alpha Daniel entered with a strange she-wolf. Luna Theresa, who had been on the night shift, had gone to her work den already. Brooklyn and Emma were in Emma's den-chamber, unaware of the stirrings below.
Brooklyn glanced at her pawwatch and stood upright.
"Emma, see me off."
Emma slowly rolled from her bed and followed. They slowed when murmurs rose from the den-lounge.
