Taken in by the pack as a pup nearing her adolescence, Willow was selected for her outstanding cunning and decision making to become the next stalker for the hunters once the original stalker, Aspen, retired.
Willow spent her adolescence in the pack, having spent her puppy years in another place. At first, it was an understandably awkward scenario, as she was the first to be adopted into the pack as an older pup. But she quickly found a friend and, eventually, a partner in one of the lead wolf's pups, Oak. The two have been inseparable ever since.