She had remained at his side until the end. Choosing to five Anastasia the position of Alpha back to focus her full attention on the dying mate she had lain her heart with. As Shade took his last breath, the white female felt her heart stop, as if she could die right along with him. Ice blue eyes turned to look at the two children he left behind before she lowered her muzzle to his dark fur and brushed her nose against the males hide one last time. She labored herself to her feet and exited the den, pausing just outside to look up, spotting the meteors overhead. At any other time, she would have enjoyed the site, but now, they just saddened her more. Muzzle lifted towards the heavens overhead and she howled, letting the feelings locked within her breast out in the best way she knew how.

The pale female cried her lament until she felt as if her lungs would burst..Finally lowering her head, she let it hang, her tail limp between her hind legs, ears falling where they would. Slowly, the female turned back to the den, eyes full of sorrow watching the shadowed shapes within.She stepped over the threshold once again and shifted to attempt to brush her muzzle against the dark pups that shade had left behind. Words she could have said were locked within her throat, and she could only sit, staring through tear filled orbs at the prone from of the once leader of Pitch Pine Trail. Spectre wanted to bury his body - to keep scavengers from sinking their fangs into it...For he deserved no less. But the pups that were of his blood had the right to decide the fate of their fathers mortal body..