[00:00.14]Chapter two.
[00:01.80]The little grey cub.
[00:05.74]She wolf had indeed led the pack on their desperate hunt for food.
[00:13.23]Now she led them away from the search party.
[00:17.89]She knew this meant danger.
[00:22.60]Running with her was her new mate, an old battle scarred wolf with one eye.
[00:32.34]One day, they split from the pack to hunt together.
[00:38.68]But she wolf was restless.
[00:42.51]She seemed to be looking for something, stopping now and again to search rocks and overhanging banks.
[00:55.15]Arriving at the mouth of a cave, she sniffed, looked around, and then crept through its narrow entrance.
[01:07.25]It was small, but cozy and dry.
[01:13.67]She wolf lay down.
[01:17.93]This was the place she'd been looking for.
[01:23.27]Old One Eye went in search of food, but he was unlucky and came back with nothing.
[01:33.19]At the mouth of the cave, something made him stop dead.
[01:40.23]Faint, strange sounds were coming from inside.
[01:46.01]Then came a warning snarl from his mate.
[01:52.60]He slowly crept inside.
[02:00.43]Snuggled between she wolf's legs were five tiny wimpering bundles.
[02:10.55]She wolf eyed him, growling.
[02:17.34]These were her first cubs, but instinct told her that some fathers would kill their helpless newborns.
[02:29.38]But she had nothing to fear from One Eye.
[02:35.00]He was flooded with a fatherly instinct to feed his cubs, and he set off again to hunt.
[02:46.98]When he returned with food, she wolf let him come a little closer to the cubs.
[02:56.05]He was doing what a wolf father should.
[03:00.69]He was helping to look after the babies they had brought into the world.
[03:07.17]One of the cubs was different from his brothers and sisters, who had their mother's reddish fur.
[03:18.13]He alone had the pure grey wolf coat of his father.
[03:26.76]His rasping growl was the loudest, and he could roll the other cubs over with a quick swipe of his paw.
[03:39.24]The first month of his life, he spent snuggling into the warmth of his mother.
[03:47.57]Never moving far from her side, his whole world was the shadowy safety of the cave.
[03:56.68]Then one day, he noticed that one wall of the cave was different.
[04:05.50]This was the cave entrance that let in a little light.
[04:12.87]As time passed, he longed to go towards that wall of light.
[04:20.23]But when he tried, his mother gave him a sharp whack on his nose.
[04:28.08]She knew he was too young to go outside.
[04:33.56]This was his first lesson that taking risks can be painful.
[04:46.76]Then came a time when there was no food for the little family, and One Eye and she wolf grew weak with hunger.
[04:59.87]The cubs simply curled up and went to sleep.
[05:06.35]Four of them, the little grey cub's brothers and sisters would never wake again.
[05:18.52]Then, there was no more play fighting.
[05:25.31]He had to play alone.
[05:30.74]Then one day, his father stopped coming through the wall of light.
[05:40.68]Only she wolf knew the reason.
[05:46.37]Following One Eye's usual trail, the left fork by the stream, she had found his body under a tree.
[06:01.95]It was clear there had been a huge fight, and that the most vicious of creatures, the lynx was to blame.
[06:17.29]She felt the loss deeply, but knew that life must go on.
[06:26.42]She had her cub to feed and protect.
[06:32.11]Motherhood is the most powerful force in nature.
[06:41.29]There would come a time when she wolf would again take the left fork to the lynx's lair for the sake of her little grey cub.