I Let You Down

It was nice to know that she didn't have to wake ever so often to check her surroundings. She had settled in the den without question or complaint. Eager to rest with the watchful eyes of her father to look over her. The youth slipped in to a deep, comfortable slumber that would carry her through the night with no interruptions. Not until her father nudged her wake after morning had already began to arrive. With a yawn the girl stretched spotted legs out right before she drew them under herself and pushed upward to a stand. Eager to stretch further outside as she slipped from the boulders to join her father. "Yes dad?" She figured she knew what it was about. The big obvious unspoken event. One that she utterly died to know and yet was too terrified to ask and hear what may come.

A unsettled churning began in the pit of her stomach as she looked up to the ivory wolf.