He had been tracking his female's scent for days when he located her. Immediately he recognized who she was and what she meant to him. It had taken him awhile to realize that the circling path she was wondering could only mean that she was lost.

Amazing, he had never known any of their kind to be lost. She was obviously young.

Panic had struck him for a moment that she would be too young. However further study of her scent established her age to be well into her ...