Seven

Founder of The Sanctuary Pack.

An upbeat if uncertain wolf, Seven is the newly-minted leader of The Sanctuary Pack. She tries to be optimistic, and works hard to secure the safety of her packmates. But she's unaccustomed to the hard life she now lives, and sometimes falters under the new weight laid across her shoulders. But Rover, Seven's mate, has the imagination and determination to bolster her leader up. Seven's also found a friend in Saturn, and a staunch- if strange- ally in Finch. With their help-- she can do it.

She thinks.

Family: Rover [mate] Rime, Setter, Dane, Eight, Uno [pups]

Seven was raised in captivity, in a wildlife sanctuary. Her earliest memories are of comfort and safety: the pack never went hungry, was never menaced by cars, or hunters, or other predators. When her youngest sibling- Eight, the runt- was born ill, the humans who ran the place took him away, and brought him back safe and whole. Seven's parents said he would have died, born outside of the sanctuary, and they would have eaten his body.

The sanctuary was everything good: security and certainty,  hot meat and medicine.

And then it was taken away. The humans released Seven and her siblings into the wild, to repopulate the forests there; a conservation effort. Maybe it was too soon, or maybe they were just unlucky, but one by one, the Sanctuary wolves died away. Big, confident Uno was killed by a car as they crossed the highway. Deux and Troix always did everything together: together, they ate bad meat. They died sick and bleeding. Four died, Five died, Sixième died.

Eight was the last. He bellied up to a group of humans, starving and begging for help. But these weren't like the humans at the sanctuary-- they shot him, and dragged his body away. To eat him, Seven supposed. It's what you did with runts in the wild. 

She was the only survivor; alone, in these terrible woods, where no wolves lived. Starving and sore, she crept on without quite knowing why, desperate for company. If she could find a friendly face, just one animal- a dog, she would take, a lynx- anyone who could tell her how to live here, in this hard new world she'd been thrust into. 

She didn't find a dog, or even a lynx, but a corn snake. he beckoned her closer, hissing, and told her what had to be done. Following after his advice, Seven stumbled across Rover, and they two founded Sanctuary, together.

Overwhelmed by her new responsibilities, Seven has trouble living in the present, and sighs after her old life. The loss of her denmates still weighs heavily on her, and she has trouble looking ahead. Still, she's a resilient, hardworking wolf, and her new pack has given her something to work towards. If she can only stop lingering over the past, she has the ability to make something great of her future.