Chapter 13: The Long Road Ahead

The sun rose on eight wolves, standing around three trucks, trying to decide how they would divide themselves up.

Or, Elizabeth and James were arguing with Kenneth.

Kenneth had insisted, very logically if Elizabeth and James had the capacity to think logically at that moment, that they actually did not know these wolves from anyone or anywhere. That they had no reason to trust them. That they could be walking into a trap for all they knew. There could be no sickness, no dying Alpha, no sleeping Luna. This could all be an elaborate trap to kill their Alpha, to steal their territory.

Kenneth made very valid points, all things considered.

Kenneth was willing to suspend disbelief, to trust in the good nature of these strange wolves he had never met before, and to blindly follow his Alpha's command, believing they were doing the right thing. Believing they had the moon's protection.

"All I ask," Kenneth stressed, again, as the sun rose. "That you grant me one simple request."

Kenneth'