“Tomorrow is the big day!” Medow exclaimed. Matilda smiled at the younger wolf. “You will have to forgive her, she is young and full of excitement,” Matilda said. “How could I not be? Do you know how long it’s been since we had a bloodening?” I laughed. “I take it that not many seek out the pack to become members?” I asked. Both women shrugged. “We haven’t ranked, which puts us at the bottom. Not many know about us and those who do, know the risk of joining a low ranking pack,” Matilda told me. I nodded. As a low ranking pack there was a real threat from other packs and rogues. Finlay and the pack had bought their land when they needed new pack land. Because that was who Finlay, and therefore the pack, was. But there were other ways to get pack land. If you were a new pack or a pack in

