For the playfulness of the two pups,
the members of the den had long since grown accustomed.
Moreover,
the successful hunting of the musk oxen,
added another eight or nine hundred pounds of food for the wolf pack, which made each wolf feel even more secure.
As the daylight outside faded, nightfall descended.
Su Lin began to sleep and rest, leaning against the cave's stone wall.
The polar night was over,
and up next were two months of alternating day and night,
followed by the real midnight sun.
But the midnight sun is different from the polar night,
for during the abundant food supply of the midnight sun, the hunters do not have a difficult time.
....
The next day,
when Su Lin woke up,
he found that the Little Lone Wolf in the den had also woken up early.
The injuries on the body of the Little Lone Wolf had almost healed,
the serious ones being from the fall caused by the musk oxen yesterday.
It was now gnawing on a chunk of ice and snow at the entrance of the cave.
