Baelfire woke up to his dad standing over him. "Yes?" He asked blinking sleep from his eyes.

"Get up." His father said in a stern voice.

"I don't see the point if I am staying in the den all day." Bae said as he climbed to his feet.

"Well then it is a good thing you aren't staying in the den. Your watching the pups." His dad growled at him angry for some reason.

If he gives me a job that takes all day then I don't have a reason to run off. Baelfire thought. Little does he know I can probably get anyone to take my place so I can leave.

"Stay close Echo" One of the wolves said
"I know I know, please to act like my parents" Echo said to the wolves, she took in the scents of the forest. There was much more prey around during the day than during the night. "Are we allowed to hunt?" Echo asked
The lead wolf nodded "Once we mark our border we will hunt on the way back"

Baelfire padded up to the pups who all bowed at him playfully. Well all except those who were almost 2 years old. He shook his head dissmisivly before laying down in the center of the pups den. He watched as some of the girls who were almost 2 looked at him and giggled. Then he turned his attention to the pups that were playing.

"rah! I'm a big bad bear!" One of the pups said.

"I won't let you hurt my pack you big bear! Taste my Fury!" The two pups pounced on each other and rolled around in the dirt.

As Echo walked with her packmates, she noticed that border patrol was kinda boring with no one talking about anything but her safety. She did know that this was a necessary task in order to keep peace between the two packs, plus anytime out of the camp during the day was better than staying in the camp.

Baelfire laughed at the pups.

"Glad to see you enjoying yourself. I honestly thought you would look miserable." Lanthe chuckled as he entered the den.

"I am miserable. The only difference from this den and the other den is this one is full of pups and soon to be juvinilies." Baelfire sighed.

"I wanna be the bear next!" Another pup chimed in. One of the pups who had been rolling in the dirt giggled and wagged their tail. "Ok!"

Lathe laughed at Baelfire. "It can't be that bad."

"Will you please watch them for a minute so I can go get a drink?" Baelfire asked hoping his friend would take the bait.

Some of the pups started to play wrestle before padding up to Bae. "Will you play with us?" They asked in their sweetest voices.

The pups looked up at Baelfire and gasped "Baelfire can be the bear! Wouldn't that be cool!?" One of them said. The other pups nodded and started begging for Baelfire to play with them.

"One game. And ten Lanthe will play with you." Baelfire received a -thanks for just volunteering me like that- from the male by ignored it. This got a few more snickers from the girls as they continued to whisper.

"Yay! Thank you Baelfire!" The pups said happily. After telling him about the rule of their little game they started to play. They gently pounced on Baelfire.