Her eyes fluttered open and I gasped with joy, I started licking her and she muttered, “Aerik? Is that you?”

 

                “Of course it is, I’m so happy you’re alive, you had me scared silly.”

 

 “Where are we?”

 

                “By the river bank were not that far from home.”

 

                I nudged her up the hill as she hobbled beside me. She yelped and fell, sliding back down to the bottom, “Aerik… Aerik where are you?” she panicked

 

                “I’m right next to you honey, are you okay?”

 

                “Yeah… Yeah I’m fine just out of it you know.”

 

                “Of course but the other way is a lot easier to climb

up lets go this way.”

                I walked on leading the way, but she stumbled around on the bank looking everywhere, “Where are you?”

 

                I knew what this meant, but pushed the though far back into my head. She couldn’t be going blind. Could she? I ran to her aide and guided her across the river and threw the hunting grounds, in till we got home. “Were home.” I smiled and led her to the deer pelt where she flopped to her side and let out a depressing sigh.

 

                They pups ran to her, “Momma we missed you!”

 

                Brooke yelped when they climbed on her but smiled and responded, “I missed you too.”

 

                Sam tilted her head and nudged closer to her, “Are you okay Momma?”

 

                “Yeah, I’ll be okay sweetie.”

 

                Sam and Sage looked unconvinced but the boys wagged their tails, as Alex spoke up, “Wanna go swimin’ Momma?”

 

                But Sage interrupted before she could answer, “Can’t you see Momma’s hurt, she can’t swim right now. Go play army with Yukon.”

 

                Yukon growled, “It’s not army it’s Sniper!”

 

                Sage rolled her eyes, “Whatever.”

 

                The boys scampered out of the den. I nuzzled the girls, “Thank you both.”

 

                “Anytime Daddy.” And they too ran outside

 

                I sat in front of Brooke and a tear fell down again when she shook with fright when I nuzzled her. “Maybe we should get you to a doctor?”

 

                She growled, “No, I hate doctors.”

 

                “Well what about the doctors dog, he watches the doctor and isn’t so bad himself?”

 

                She sighed, “Okay…”

 

                I howled calling for the doctors dog to come as fast as he could. I looked at her wounds myself and noticed how bad they were. Her right front paw was defiantly broken. Her sides were scratched up and she was covered in blood, some not even hers. Her eyes were scratched as well and when I looked closer I noticed a filmy milky white shade of clouded blue colored her eyes. That’s what I had feared, “What happened out there?”

 

                “Well my old alpha Sean wanted to kill me…” She went through her whole story, never missing a detail.

 

                “Well I’m proud of you; you weren’t going down without a fight.”

 

                She smiled, pride glowing from her. She stiffened, “Someone’s here.”

 

                “Who, I don’t smell anyone, or see anyone?”

 

                She lifted her nose in the air and sniffed, “Oh it’s just the doctor’s dog.” Brooke rested her head on the pelt as I went to greet the dog.

 

                He introduced himself, “Hello, I heard this was an emergency and I came as quick as I could. My name is Scout.”

 

                Scout is a Mastiff; he trotted over to my mate and inspected her wounds. Scout pulled off his pack on his back and got out some herbs and leaves. He rapped her wounds in the different leaves and put the herbs on her paw. He looked at the paw again and shook his head, “I’m afraid that we’ll have to re-brake your paw for it to heal straight.”

 

                She nodded weakly. I nuzzled her through it all as Scout put her paw in his mouth and broke it; a piercing yelp rang through the trees. I wiped away her tears; Scout re-set her paw in the right spot and put it in a splint. He wrapped it together with the leaved and spread the herbs over her face, “I’m afraid you might have lost your vision for good.”

 

                “For… For good?” She questioned holding back tears

 

                “Yes, but it may come back bit by bit to a degree.”

 

                She smiled, “Will it ever be the way it was before?”

 

                “I’m afraid not, never 100 percent the same but it could come close.” He looked at me, “You have to rub this on around her eyes and on her eyelids for a couple of weeks.”

 

                I nodded and he went on, “I’ll be back in a week to see how you’re doing. Try not to move much okay? Feel better.”

 

                “Thank you.” We both responded

 

                “Pleasure to be of assistance.”

 

                I watched as he left, and then turned to Brooke, “Ready to go to sleep?”

 

                “My eyes have been sleeping all day, I’m not tired.”

 

                “What do you mean?”

 

                “It’s always foggy now so I just sleep to get rid of it and then I see perfectly.”

 

                I chuckled, “Your tired, just take a little nap?”

 

                She huffed, “Fine.”

 

                “I still see you’re as stubborn as

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