Blacktail Deer Plateau I will remember your face

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the relief of his packmates was palpable as he revealed that the children lived -- with a jolt, lasher realized that his brood were next in line for the leadership he held, if dante had no pups of his own. such was the hierarchy of wolves, though who could know what occurred in the years to come?

his lips thinned into a grim line at their negative responses; he was not pleased, but neither had they brought news of death. throwing back his crown, the beta issued a rallying call for any plateau wolves who had scattered, that they come to him, and then he nodded at the two.

"we can do no good here, not now," the man said softly. "come away into the woods with us until the ash has settled."