บท 1: Prologue

The young wolf prowled alone in the birch forest. It was against the rules to move around the forest alone, especially for the young ones....the ones just finishing their puberty. The rule was mainly made to protect the young ones from dangers. But the wolf did not fear anything in the forest because he knew he was very strong, even stronger than most other adults in their pack. But the wolf wanted sometime alone away from his brother-in -arms, his fellow mates who were playing in the river some distance away. He knew he would be scolded by the elders of his pack. But he did not care. He wanted time alone to remember the most essential thing. He wanted to remember the small tinkling laugh, the sound he last heard 9 years back.