year four at Sanctuary! A new leader is crowned.
Other misc stuff this year:
Rover resists the idea that she & Seven are getting old (a worry spurred on by Seven’s retirement) and she and Seven fight a little, as Rover’s old recklessness and pride rear their head again (nothing too serious though)
Tanager, who has always been closer with her mother Grackle than her other packmates, is kind of lost after Grackle’s death, and struggles to figure out who she is on her own
Rime becomes closer friends with Tanager over the course of the year, and through Tanager’s struggles starts to realize that maybe she’s just following her parents’ wishes for her rather than doing what she wants-- eventually leading her to reject the leadership position.
Kit starts to get rebellious, feeling smothered by his mom’s affection, and leads the other subadults into some mostly harmless Angsty Teen trouble
Radun begins to regret bringing Verand to the pack- threatened by illness as it is- and feels lonely and uncertain watching Verand fit in where she doesn’t; maybe gets a bit overprotective.
Verand, in response, starts hanging out with Kit more, and the two bond over being Teens Smothered By Their Loving Families, Mom, God! Her and Radun squabble a little, but just in a “teenager and her young guardian” way, nothing too serious (though this does make Radun, already uncertain, feel even more lonely and unsure of herself).
Uno, the only new puppy born this year, is a bit lonely, and follows the next youngest wolf- Kit- around wherever he goes. Kit comes to view Uno as a younger brother, both fond of and annoyed by him.