Hope

Hope is a young fox shifter who can transform between an arctic fox and a human girl, though she never fully belongs to either form. After her mother died, Hope was taken in by a wolf pack and raised among them.

As a child, she occasionally left the wild to visit the humans. She desperately wanted to understand their strange mouth language. During these visits, she formed a friendship with a young Indigenous boy who taught her basic words.

When leaving on one of these visits, a hunter notices and forces the boy to tell him all he knows about her. He tracks her all the way home.

The great hunt enacted, the pack was destroyed...or so she thinks.

She flees, banished by the remaning leader of her clan. She is captured and sold to a travelling circus. The boy is in tears, apologizing to her, but yet its too late to make amends.