Paminta

"…Is it a fox?" Ace asked, blue eyes wide. His adoptive mother hushed him, and urged him deeper into the log.
"It's too big to be a fox. Much too big," Rex whimpered as he was also shoved into the log by Socks. The pups stared at the tall fox with curious eyes.
Stream, the pack leader, approached Pepper, eyes narrowed. "What…are you?" she woofed, hackles raised. It smelled like a female but was obviously a male, and it looked just like a fox!

"A wolf. Pepper," he muttered. His voice was so deep and rumbly, even Stream jumped a bit. "Where are you from, Pepper?"

"I've traveled far and wide, searching for this place. My Ma would tell me stories about a place past the blizzards coated in buttercups. She told me that this place was my true home. That I belonged her and not in the jungle."

Stream blinked. "Well you….certainly blend in here," she muttered while comparing his coat to one of the foxes she had slain not too long ago.
She looked back at her pack, who poked their heads out of the undergrowth.

"Pepper of the jungle…Welcome to the Venus Pack!"

Paminta stared at Stream's body. The wolf had passed in her sleep. Rumble looked at Paminta. "We aren't too far behind you know," he croaked, shifting his weight. The two of them were the only wolves in this pack that knew Stream singed she was young.
Except for Alas, who was a reincarnation of Aijin. Paminta shuddered. "Yes. I know."