NOAH “And this is Artemis,” dad said, motioning towards the other side of the training grounds. A huge midnight black wolf trotted towards us with bright yellow eyes. Yellow eyes that we’d seen before… The wolf, Artemis, walked over to us, stopping directly in front of us before licking each of our faces in turn. My dad and Beta Alexander chuckled at the show, but the four of us just didn’t know how to react to a massive wolf licking our faces. We’d all seen wolves around the territory before, of course we have, but never quite this up close and personal. I definitely hadn’t been licked by one before. Typically, the first time kids in our pack get up close and personal with other wolves is when they shift for the first time. Unless there’s an emergency, our pack members aren’t perm

