Youth of the Nation [Children & Elder camp]

Enrico... Mask... he did need to start thinking of himself in the name he gave to others... was woken from his sleep by the first of the urgent howls ringing across the territories. He came awake all at once with no foggy sleep clouding his mind, a habit he had long been in, and waited with ears pricked to see what had woken him. A very short time later more howls rose, telling the story. He too, rose, uncurling from his hollow beneath a shrub brush. He had never been in the habit of digging a den, not like most wolves here, so he found himself more in tune with his surroundings than those ensconced beneath the insulating ground. A handy thing, when you were running for your life, bit just as well to keep it so now. For a moment he considered going to answer the call - surely those in the raid would be rewarded with rank and accolades, and that spoke well to his ambition - but a beat later he rejected the idea. He was not a soldier, to confront the enemies of the pack face to face. There were enough of those already. No, he was an ambush hunter, a knife blade in the darkness, and showing himself to a clear enemy needlessly would do no good for his future endeavors. Besides, there were many in the pack who were too young and infirm to protect themselves, and his presence as a guardian would allow more of the pack's fighters to answer the call to battle. So he turned his nose instead to Regulus' communal den system, where the noncombatants would surely gather. As he stepped within the ravine he studied it coolly, having never been there. Yes, the mouth of the den there would allow one or two wolves to easily hold off attackers if it came to it. This would do well. Which was good, he discovered as he ducked into the cave system, because he was the only fully adult wolf there capable of defending. Of the adults, there were two yearlings and a blind mother, and one of those yearlings was crippled.  He would be in for a grim fight of it if any enemies slipped around the warriors to find this cave system.