Uncertainty

She had awoken late at night, next to a cold body with no warmth. Her brown colored mother was not making a sound, her chest was not rising, nor falling. The silence at first made the pup think that her mother was sleeping, but when her father entered the den. She could feel that something was terribly wrong. The healthy pup looked up at her father and began to press her paws against her mother who was not moving at all. Reficul was confused, she had never experienced something like this before. Her distraught cries would only bring her father much pain though, for the male knew himself he did not have the courage nor the skill to raise a female pup on his own. Both he and his mate had been using all their strength to feed Ref, and they ended up being starving almost themselves. Ref's brown tipped tail flicked as she looked up at her dad. "Why isn't she moving dad?" she shivered as the male picked her up by the scruff. That was how the night went, before the snow had started. Her dad had dragged her away from her loving mother. In the confusion of her cries, they reached the nearest pack by the morning. Ref was terrified, Father had not spoken a word to her, and she knew in the back of her head that her mother wasn't there anymore. It was like the animals she had seen her father bring for her to eat for the first time. How could something have no life in it any longer. What was this foreign concept to her that scared her so much. Something she didn't understand but wanted to even though it hurt her so much. Finally her father set her down at the borders of Seracia.

"DAD, where are you going DAD!" It was cold, and her father did only say one thing to her. "I'm sorry Ref, this way you'll be safe." The male had chosen his daughters life over his selfish wants to raise her himself. As he started to walk away. Ref could do nothing but watch whining and crying out loud. She was being left alone, why? She was so confused. Ref didn't know what to do. The two month old pup covered her eyes with her paws as what seems like hours passed and white flakes began to fall from the sky. The cold, she didn't like it at all. Being alone either, confused and afraid as the distraught pup looked up at the white stuff she knew nothing about. It tasted like frozen water. Her father had told her before when something became too cold it went frozen. Was that what happened to mother, and had father been afraid that would happen to him to so he left her behind. Ref cried out in small barks and howls hoping her father would come back before something bigger came along to gobble her up. She didn't even know why he dropped her off at a random spot. Was there something here supposed to protect her. Ref continued to cry out though, with all the energy she had.