Back in Ilse, the packhouse was filled with silence. The lingering silence and the weight of guilt has been clouding the pack for a couple of days now. Iker has left like many of them have wanted and yet, there was a silence that was so piercing that Ahem was the only thing holding Cris together.

　　"You know, he doesn't do well in unfamiliar places. Always ends up in the corner and a loner. One time when we all left for high school and he and Zal were constantly fighting. So dad changed his school. He would drag his feet every day and be a brat. One day I went...