Maera didn’t really know how long they’d last. At first, she hadn’t been optimistic or hopeful, and more wary about whom he was, but the more time went on, the less those seemed to matter. Instead, he was arguably her best friend, and definitely the first person she’d started to trust in a long while, since Kael and her mother rejoined the pack they never should have been forced from. She worried sometimes that she couldn’t handle the trust that came with living in a pack, that she was going to be the major problem, not the pack or how it was structured.

There had been a time not too long ago that she probably would have bit his ear off for being remotely near her and yet she actually found comfort in it.  He was right, there was nothing to lose because they could always leave if they needed to… sometimes she felt like that was quitting but if she truly didn’t belong there, then she could leave… she’d never do that though, not unless Kerb felt the same way. They were friends, and she wouldn’t leave her friends or her family behind unless there was no other option like there’d  been with her family.

“Not that I know of. She said they were all hanging in the Grove until they figured out what they were going to do next.”