There had been more pups to show up at the hunt than she'd expected, with no training for most of them and little real discipline. There were more pups and yearlings than there were adults in the pack, and many of the wolves were simply not capable or ranked where they could take on the responsibility. Katja had come to the inevitable conclusion. She was going to have to become involved.
She'd been considering it for some time now, since her first encounter with Raisa's children, then later with the younger boy Sigmarr. It seemed it was the tradition not to begin training until they were a year old, but these pups wanted, needed their training to begin now. Did the yearlings they had as squires even have mentors as they were supposed to?
Sitting nearby her den, perched on the half-fallen wall of the ruins, she sent out a call for the young of the pack to stir themselves and come to her. No matter what their interest in learning, she called for them to appear to a meeting. All yearlings, all pups over the age of six months would be required to attend, and any interested pups younger than that were welcome - adults could come as they pleased but this meeting concerned the children moreso. She would get this training sorted out.
