I Can Do It All By Myself

She didn't know where Speare had gotten off to, he liked to push his limits with their surrogate mother. She on the other hand had become more subservient, to the point where unless she was told to go out and play, or practice her lessons, or whatever it happened to be that day she would leave herself in a den. Wit or with out Speare. She knew that she was starting to worry him, but there was little she wished to do about it. She'd lost a lot of interest in her life, knowing who she was in this pack had easily destroyed the spunk she carried when she'd been free. She was someone's property now, there wasn't anything she could do and had given up her struggle quickly after being separated from her mother and father. Now she lay listlessly in the den, her mind all but shut off from outside stimulation. She was lightyears away, remembering the good times they had together as a family. Yeah they might have been dysfunctional a lot of the time but she loved her family the way they had been.

She would hear slightly the rustling of the youngest pup in Imperium, not that she would indicate as such visually. She'd ignore him as long as she could. Finally as he called out, she would sigh heavily. She couldn't really tell him to go away, but surely he wasn't looking for her. Other than the huff Colette wouldn't give him any other acknowledgement.