THE DAYS OF FIRE From the night of the terrible fight with the big gray lynx on the top of the Sun Rock, Kazan remembered less and less vividly the old days when he had been a sledge-dog, and the leader of a pack.

He would never quite forget them, and always there would stand out certain memories from among the rest, like fires cutting the blackness of night.

But as man dates events from his birth, his marriage, his freedom from a bondage, or some foundation-step in his career, so all things seemed to Kazan to begin with two tragedies which had followed one fast upon the other after the birth of Gray Wolf's pups.
The first was the fight on the Sun Rock, when the big gray lynx had blinded his beautiful wolf mate for all time, and had torn her pups into pieces.

He in turn had killed the lynx.

But Gray Wolf was still blind.
Vengeance had not been able to give her sight.