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Early Summer, Year 4

Year 4 of Juneau's Reign

• In the depths of winter, Bethel birthed 3 pups - 2 girls and 1 boy, which she named (in order of age): Moraine, Cedar, and Koda. Despite her ageing body, she has managed to see them grow into adolescents. She died shortly after.
• Atka and Kodiak adopted another puppy, which they called Timber, and raised him near to adulthood. Tragically, the apprentice chaser died during a hunting expedition, crushed by a falling ox. Broken by so much pain and hurt in their lives, Atka vowed she was done with raising puppies. Kodiak is sceptical that is truly the case, but he longs for the day that Moody will come home.


• Anchorage, fed up of feeling like an outcast, decided to travel beyond the pack in search of her and Sitka's only pup - Adak - though she feels in her heart he may truly be lost to her. Despite trying to convince Sitka to join her, he refused, still bound to Juneau by an unwavering loyalty. Tragically, her body was found by Emmonak during a scouting expedition several weeks later. It is unclear how she died, but the theory is starvation.


• With Anchorage gone, Juneau finally allowed Sitka to rejoin Main Pack, taking pity on his now absolute loneliness.


• After years of no pups, and frustration on Emmonak's part, Juneau finally decided to start a family with him. The couple were nervous and excited to welcome their 6 pups: Kelowna, Nanaimo, Aq'am, Komoks, Matsqui, and Kanaka.

• Pine joined the pack.


• Juneau ousted Druid from the Main Pack due to his wanton ways - begetting several of the females pregnant with pups. To teach the yearling to take responsibility for his actions and that they have consequences, she forced him to take care of the females and his incoming pups on his own. Sadly, several of the pups did not make it, and most of the females left. Now only Druid and Somber remain, raising their only surviving pup, Eclipse.

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Late Winter, Year 5

Year 5 of Juneau's Reign

• Following the death of his mother, Koda decided to leave the pack, setting out to make a new life for himself. Moraine and Cedar, meanwhile, decided to stay with the pack their mother had always considered family.


• Packs across the land had been rocked by mysterious disappearances, and whilst Loopis Pack had managed to avoid the tragedy initially, it was the subsequent disappearance of Cedar (Bethel's eldest daughter), Eclipse (Druid and Somber's eldest), and Komoks (one of Juneau and Emmonak's pups), that spurred Juneau into action. Having discovered the source of the disappearances, Juneau sacrificed two of her own pups - Matsqui and Kanaka - to the spirit Bronagh, to stop the disappearances from happening. Although devastated by the decision, she knew she could not ask another wolf to sacrifice their pups in her place. Knowing Emmonak, already distressed by the loss of his son, would never consent, she confided in her eldest remaining child - Couver - who made the painful decision of which two pups to lead away from their pupsitter to Bronagh's lair.
  
  Upon his discovery of another two of his pups having been taken by the spirit, Emmonak flew into a grief-stricken rage, and lashed out at his mate. In the ensuing chaos, Couver lunged at his step-father in an attempt to protect his mother, tussling with the much stronger male, and earning several dreadful injuries in the process. It was only when Sitka intervened, landing several horrific bites on Emmonak, that the stronger male released Couver, who was bleeding profusely. During the succeeding fight, Sitka, though earning himself several bad bites, managed to lock his jaws on the side of Emmonak's face, completely destroying his right eye.
  
  Close to death, Emmonak was dragged to the Quarrantine Cave by Couver and Sitka. Desperate to save his life, Diomede spent hours chewing various herbs to make salves for his eye - salves to stem the bleeding, slave to fight off infection, salves to help him bear the pain. Eventually the scout pulled through, though didn't seem the same anymore. The once charming wolf was withdrawn and sullen, refusing to talk more than was strictly necessary, and no more than a few words if he could help it. It seemed he not only mourned for his lost pups, but for his lost eye as well.
  
  When he did finally rejoin main pack, he spent his time pupsitting his remaining pups, but refused to talk to Juneau. When he did finally utter words to her, it was to request that they break their pairbond. Although heartbroken, she couldn't blame him, and agreed.



• Ketchikan and Diomede welcomed their first litter together. Given her age, it was expected that not all the pups would make it, so they were quietly resigned when three out of the four did not survive the birth. They named their only surviving pup Whistler.



• So alike in personality, it only seemed natural Couver and Elowyn would feel a strong pull towards one another, and decide to pairbond.



• They say opposites attract, and it's never been truer than in the case of Ghost and Pine - most of the pack don't understand how such an unfriendly wolf managed to convince the most amiable one going he was pairbond material, but she must see something in him others just don't.

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