Ishvit

"Ice! An ice wolf has been born!" A howl shrieks through the mountainside, followed by a mournful choir of howls from the surrounding land.

Maldca was cowering by her pups, not noticing the white fur of one female pup until she had cleaned her. Her only female pup.

Ice wolves were a term in her pack for wolves inexplicably born with a white coat and icy blue eyes, when every other wolf in the pack had dark, almost black fur and eyes like an evergreen tree.

It was too cruel to chase them out of the pack, but once they were done relying on their mothers and knew how to scavenge and hunt, they were then chased out.

Ishvit was named for the wolven word for glacier furred. They were usually named in this way as a way to remind them they held a curse, and this would follow them their entire life.

Maldca tried to ignore the howls and the whistle of wind against the opening of her den, snow falling so fast it looked like a sheet of white was covering the land. She simply licked her pups clean, ignoring the misfortune this would bring her.