Yes, that's right. Decaarr. How could you have forgotten? You can feel it now. Something close to pain, but pain means you're getting closer to the surface. It helps you remember that you're still alive.
Other things begin to come into focus as the black horizon turns to a milky gray. The more you collect your sense of self, the faster the surface of consciousness rushes up to greet you.
The elders claim that you were a difficult child, always focused on whatever suited you best at the time rather than the exacting standards werewolf society demands. In the long years following your birth, you came to define yourself on your own, but others have a tendency to require more impersonal definitions. How do your peers within the pack see you?
You hadn't spent all that long cloistered with the other wolves of your gender. In the Haven pack, youths are mixed at an early age, leaving the pups to grow and learn as they see fit. Eventually you grew old enough to consider romantic interests.