Carmine and Alex's baby was easily the most adorable thing that Layla had seen in a very long time. He was just a few weeks old, really, and in three days it would be his Birthing Ceremony.
Layla would stay and help her cousin through the Birthing Ceremony. It was time honored tradition that no wolf's memory could reach into, they didn't know how long they had been doing it for, but they remembered the reason. And they all knew how important it was for their pup.
It had been a long time since the moon had any effect on their ability to shift. She no longer controlled them, gifting the wolves with the ability to change at will, whether she was full in the sky or not.
But to honor her, and the gift that she had given them, the power and the freedom, they would still shift at the first full moon after the baby had been born. And they would teach him to shift for the first time, too.
