It didn’t take long for the elders to learn the new ways to feed. After old school groveling, apologizing, and proving they were sincere in their desire to be friends, they took to pack life quickly too.

Thea and the witches figured out how to recreate New Dawn’s forcefield, and Thea put it on the surrounding packs. With personal forcefields, Alpha Ford and Amethyst felt safe enough to come to New Dawn and hear Thomas out. They left their pups at home.

Thomas did an exemplary job at humbling himself. His Old World etiquette smoothed things over quickly. He had contacted the people he left behind in the Old World and had his things shipped to New Dawn. The old tomes he gave Alpha Ford and Amethyst as a peace offering bridged the remaining gap.

“No weapon can kill her. No god. No man. No beast,” Alpha Ford said at their next war room meeting. “That’s the main takeaway. Lilith is indestructible.”

“No offense,” Liam said. “But when that was written, modern weaponry didn’t exist. Grenad