Soothing Souls

Sadness melted away as her new friend said that he wanted to stay. Bowen gave him one of her beaming smiles. "I'm glad. I'd be sad if you left. I don't have many friends other than my brothers and sisters." There was the other litter of pups but she'd only met Emile. He was very nice, but Bowen wanted to have a lot of friends. She was too sweet and too nice to keep to herself.

Since Grim said that he was hungry and his stomach agreed, Bowen motioned for him to follow her. She led him past their den and out a ways. There was a deep den dugout into the ground. It was so deep that it was cold inside from the hard packed ground all around it. The cold temperature helped keep the food from rotting, mom said. "There's lots of food in here. You can pick whatever kind you want!" The moms tried to keep it organized by type of meat and age of meat. So the things that would spoil first were in the front. Bowen picked up a piece of rabbit for herself and waited for Grim to decide so they could go back above ground and eat in the sun.