Sweet asks how Moon is, and Snap, glancing grimly toward the soon-to-be mother's den, states that she doesn't know. The small dog is getting her own breath back after the panic, and admits that there was no harm done, though it was good that she saw the coyotes herself, since everyone was distracted by Moon's pup-time. The Swift-Dog justifies that Beta must have been called away, but through clenched jaws Snap grunts to Sweet to not worry. Sweet answers that she had to fetch Fiery, and Beta said she would patrol for her. Fiery scares the coyotes away, then Snap rounds on Sweet and demands where she was. The tan-and-white dog tells Sweet to go on, and says that she wants to hear it too.ĭuring Moon's pup-time, when Sweet leaves her watch duty to tell Fiery, they return to camp to find Snap standing with her back to the camp and her muzzle peeled back as she faces down a pair of hungry coyotes. Spring and Dart demand Sweet to explain to them how she became so fast, and Snap cocks an ear. Later in camp, after a hunting patrol where Sweet helps catch a deer, Fiery retells the story to the Pack, and he tells Snap that he never would have thought of it. The Swift Dog says that she doesn't want to cause problems in the Pack, but Snap, despite Fiery's warning glower, mutters that she isn't sure Beta would give her much of a choice. Snap gives a dismissive hunch of her shoulders, but Sweet turns toward the tan-and-white dog with horror. She wonders if Sweet is what is needed in the Pack, but Fiery interrupts Snap and growls at her to not gossip about her leaders. Snap tilts her head and cocks an ear, explaining that every dog knows that Alpha and Beta haven't been agreeing recently. Sweet takes a step back and meets Snap's eyes, asking what she means.

Fiery assures that Alpha likes her, and Snap agrees that Beta should watch her hindquarters.

Fiery presses against Sweet, and Snap sidles closer to her, giving her Packmate's ear a reassuring lick. Alpha comes and asks to see the move, and when he praises Sweet, Beta leaves. However, Beta intimidates Sweet, leaving Snap and Fiery to look away, unwilling to interfere between Sweet and their Beta. When Sweet is first unsuccessful at a move with Fiery, she later gets it right, and when Fiery tells her that she could do it, Snap happily agrees that she obviously could. When Sweet practices battle training with Fiery and Snap, watched over by Beta, she notes that it is hard to practice fighting techniques with a large dog like Fiery and a nimble and lithe hunter like Snap. Snap was one of the survivors in Moon's Pack when the invisible enemy attacked, wiping out most of the Pack.

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