I couldn’t understand it before, how even if his pack abandoned and confined him, his mother didn’t follow or take him far from here. I get it now. The way our parents have confined us inside Santo and kept us close. Cages of different purposes.
She probably knew that, out there, she couldn’t protect him either, and chose the least harmful way to ensure he could grow close by. While my parents were afraid of what awaited us outside because we were different, too, and other wolves didn’t treat us kindly in our own pack, either.
I can’t even begin to understand what a parent feels. What decisions they make, thinking they are doing what’s best, and at the heart of it is only that they want to safeguard their babies. They’re not perfect and don’t have all the answers, so they do what they th
