Named for the black ticking on his back and the flash of silver around his neck, Ashen is the son of Aspen and Kodalk. He is the original eldest pupsitter of the Linger Howl pack, and is a wolf with a calm, capable personality. He believes he is next in line for the Pupmother role.
Aspen had never known his father, but he never needed to. His mother was all the parent he needed. She would weave adventures for him and his siblings, tales of great bears and wolves with tails as long as a mountain range. When she had allowed his siblings to leave the pack, but not him, he had been jealous.
Becoming a pupsitter meant learning the truth. The nature of the prophetic dreams of the herbalist, how the pups weren't leaving for adventure, but because it was "supposed to be".
He could never voice it out loud, but the dreams were full of garbage.
How could one mother have all three of her pups stay, while another lost all of hers? How could some pups who were stronger and smarter be forced to leave? How could pups who were kinder and had a sense of their pack be forced to leave? All under the guise of his mother's stories, of being traded away to their destiny or to leave and find a fake adventure??
He doesn't talk to his mother nowadays. He won't forgive her for what she let happen to his siblings. To his even younger siblings, Wren and Hickory...
He won't let it happen to his own pups. Silver Wing, the love of his life, his mate, understands him completely and wholly. They could never be closer, and as such, they both agree to protect their pups from not only Aspen, but any supposed "prophecies" that threaten their family.
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