Neve

Neve grew up as a part of a small pack. She never knew her father, he was someone her mother had met outside of her pack. She was happy, though. She had a sister and an older brother and she liked spending time with all the other pups in her pack. They were a happy family. Her pack lurked in a forest that was beginning to lose food, though. The season had been dry, the deer herds had left, and the hunters couldn't find enough small prey to feed them all. It was, unfortunately, time to move. 

Leaving a place you once called home always hurts. Leaving a place where you spent your happy childhood right at the time you're transitioning into adulthood hurts even more. Her pack wandered for a long while, but there aren't empty spaces to sustain a whole pack. Neve's mother was beginning to worry, and the anxiety always hung in the air. They went hungry most of the time, a part of the pack eating each day so they would all have a meal eventually. Neve was miserable, and so was everyone around her. 

Finally, after weeks of wandering, they ran into a relatively big pack of friendly-seeming wolves. They claimed a fairly large portion of a luscious forest and they seemed willing to share it with Neve's small pack. Their leader was unsure at first, but he saw his wolves were hungry and exhausted and so he agreed they would settle here for a while. A night to start with, then they'd discuss it in the morning. 

Neve settled to sleep curled up next to her friends. Finally, a night when she can fully relax and fall completely asleep, knowing she's safe. The warm summer air felt heavy, but she'd been exhausted. Besides, once she's rested, she can go take a swim in the forest river. Better times were ahead. 

They stayed with the pack for a while. They were friendly, indeed. Neve sharpened her skills, filled her stomach, her fur grew thicker. But the summer kept getting hotter, and she'd notice on hunts her lungs felt heavy. Like there was something dark creeping deep inside her. 

The weeks flew by in bliss, and Neve was having too much fun to focus on any trouble until finally, one day she woke up to thick smoke. She tried to raise the alarm, tried to wake up the others. The smoke was heavy in her lungs and she felt dizzy, but she still did her best to alert as many of her friends as possible. 

"A fire!! A summer forest fire!!"

Finally, she couldn't take it anymore. The smoke was thick and heavy and the fire was creeping ever closer to their den. She did what she could and now it was the time to run, to run from the fire, to find a safe shelter. She'll come back tomorrow. She'll look at the damage and they'll fix it together. Tragedy never stopped her pack from moving on and healing. 

The forest fire raged on for a long while. She's never seen anything like it. 

Finally, after this forced second exile, she and a few of her friends returned to where their new den had been. Where the fire had been. Ash. Big gray nothingness stretched on for miles. And so many skeletons. 

"Why did you do this to us?"

Neve and her friends turned to see an angry group of wolves standing behind them. "What?"

"Don't play dumb. We let you in, we fed you, we accepted you as our own. Why did you do this to us?"

Finally, Neve understood what she and her friends were being accused of. The forest fire broke out mere weeks after they had joined the pack. And as most of Neve's old pack managed to escape, and most of the new pack died in the fire, they thought Neve's pack had somehow caused this. Fire and smoke played tricks on them. 

Before she could say anything, before anyone could say anything, the group of angry wolves was on them. She had never seen a wolf sink their teeth into the flesh of another of their kind. The terror of it froze the blood in her veins. There were too many of them, and Neve had no idea what to do. So she turned around and she ran. She ran until she wasn't being chased anymore, she ran until she could no longer hear the screams. She ran until she found another forest. Another pack. 

She had no idea if any of her family or friends were alive and she had no idea if she was going to see them ever again. If any managed to escape the bloody battle, they wouldn't be back there anymore anyway. So she knew there was no point in going back. She needed to move on. Heal and move on. 

She moved from pack to pack like this, trying to forget her past and trying to find a place where she finally feels like she belongs again. Maybe this is it?

Neve was the first wolf to join, not as a part of a quest, but as a part of my own initiative and exploration! My plan for her is to set her as a scout for now! My very first scout!!

Neve enjoys long walks and she also enjoys being grumpy. Being a scout is perfect for her because it gives her the opportunity to get all her grumps out before she comes back to socialize. Besides, she has a secret hobby of butterfly watching. She enjoys finding a nice spot to rest and letting a butterfly land on her nose. Their little legs tickle her nose and she thinks the way their wings move is beautiful. 

She recently moved to Wolf's Sanctuary, alongside her fellow scout, Elias, and the hunters. 

Neve has been moved to being a hunter now!! Sometimes you gotta switch your roles up a little bit, to keep it fun, keep it fresh, keep it young!

Neve is currently residing in Wolf's Sanctuary, a hunter's cave.