Whilst messing around outside, Maddy, Tom, Shannon, and Rhydian spot another person watching them from the trees. Maddy and Rhydian can't find any trace of the other person beside a footprint and a faint scent, recognising it to be the wild wolfblood they fought previously. This wild wolfblood catches Rhydian alone later and reveals that she is his biological mother and he flees, spotting her again outside his foster family's home. The next day at school Maddy plans to hunt down the wild wolfblood but Rhydian refuses, saying he wants to forget she ever existed. At Bernie's he reveals that she is his mother, and Maddy encourages him to speak with her despite his anger at having been abandoned, saying that he doesn't know what really happened when he was two and won't know unless he asks his mother. His mother, Ceri, arrives at Bernie's and Maddy leaves the two alone, though she embarrasses Rhydian by not knowing how to drink from a mug and by being dirty and disheveled. Jimi mocks her and she snarls in his face before running off with Rhydian. He tells her he is embarrassed of her and she says he shouldn't be, that she can teach him everything about being a wolfblood, even things that Maddy's "tame" family can't teach. She tells him that she'd been hunting for food and had left Rhydian in a safe place when he was found and taken by humans, only being able to track him after sensing his first transformation, and that she wants to bring her son home. She shows him eolas, a supernatural ability to connect to nature, giving its user the ability to track anyone or see anything.
