Du

Dark and dreary december day it was when Du was caught in the chicken coop. They were too hungry to fear capture. The rest of the pack escaped unscathed, except for Scar, whose flank bled from flying stick. Du was slow, always had been, and so the hairless two legs snatched him. Du was weak and so the hairless two legs kept him. Why not kill him? Maybe because they felt sorry for his deformed snout and stumpy fangs. Others in the pack had teased that he looked like a two leg. At least he was not hairless!

With time Du learned the hairless two leg language. He came to understand that he was one of them, taken in time before memory by the wolf pack. Strange that no one else could speak with the wolves and other animals, but then again they could do other things that Du could not. He grew to feel half at home with the Red Cloud Clan and found his place in their pack.

He made friends among the Red Cloud Clan, but his best friends were a Huck (the dog), Sheila (the Cat), Kein (the Raven) and Limp (the mouse made lame when caught by Sheila for sport…but that was many moons ago).