Dakota hadn't even heard her come near him. He guessed he was just so out of the loop that even the smallest sounds he used to hear, he wasn't anymore. He opened his eyes once he felt his head being lifted up and cradled. But slowly his eyes closed once more, he didn't want to answer her. Just wanted to let her wonder about it and hope that she would forget. But he had been faithful to her with all his heart and he felt that he loved her, she was just doing what she felt was right and that was enough to let her know what happened. He sucked in air through his nose and released it in a long slow breath. "I was going to leave him, I wanted too. After all he wasn't my child. But something told me that I couldn't, I thought that maybe if I helped him we wouldn't have to prepare our family to fight. Like anyone would listen to a pup about war." Dakota's ears dropped some "Three days ago I thought I would go hunting, I had a deer alone in the forest, surrounded by water. I was going to kill him but something else grabbed the deer. Out of thin air, it was gone. And something much larger took its place, a monster. It was a jumbled mix of creatures, it just stared at me. Like it was watching my soul, and then when I blinked it was gone." Dakota didn't lift his head, didn't even move even as he spoke his spine was shivering. As if whatever the monster was, was watching him even now. "I've been having dreams, of being alone without a pack. And now these fights are happening, maybe it was telling me something. I need to find it again Sanguinem, I need to ask it everything thats been on my mind and we need it's help. We can't defend ourselves with so little time." He lifted his head noticing something was off, he looked around quickly, his eyes scanning the wolves near "Where is Tsumetai?"