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CHAPTER 61: The Investigation Begins
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2026-03-22 05:48:06
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Two years after the Collective fell, I finally admitted the truth.I was dying.Not from battle. Not from corruption. Just from age.Eighty years old. Ancient for a wolf. My body was giving out.Vera confirmed it. "Your heart is failing. Slowly. You have maybe a year. Maybe less.""Does Selene know?""Not yet. But she will notice soon."I told her that evening.My daughter, now fifty years old, took the news quietly."How long?""A year. Maybe less."She nodded. Did not cry. Just held my hand."What do you want to do with the time you have left?""Finish what I started. Make sure the omega rights movement will survive without me."Over the next months, we worked together.Formalizing the omega training programs. Creating standardized curricula. Ensuring every pack had access to omega education.Establishing the Council of Omega Elders. A permanent institution to oversee omega welfare across all packs.Documenting everything I knew. Every technique. Every lesson. Every hard-won underst
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I woke three days later in Shadowpine's healing ward.Selene was beside me, also unconscious. Around us, dozens of omega coordinators lay in similar states. The network had drained us completely.Vera appeared when she noticed I was awake."How do you feel?" she asked."Like death. How bad is it?""Forty omega coordinators still unconscious. Ten may never wake. The network was too much. It burned out their omega cores completely."My heart sank. "Casualties?""From the strike teams? Seventy percent dead. Thomas's eastern team was wiped out entirely. He died getting that torch into the cave."Thomas. My friend. My Third. Gone."What about the United Pack wolves? The fifty thousand freed from mind control?""Chaos. Most are in shock. Many do not remember who they were before the enhanced bonds. Some have families they do not recognize. Others have no one left.""What are we doing with them?""Helping them. Feeding them. Trying to help them remember themselves. But Lila—many do not want
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The call went out across the alliance.We needed volunteers for a suicide mission. Wolves willing to attack the Collective's hidden locations knowing they would probably not return.We expected maybe fifty volunteers.We got over five hundred."Why so many?" I asked one young warrior who volunteered. "You have your whole life ahead of you.""Because if the Collective wins, I will not have a life. I will have controlled existence. I would rather die free than live as a puppet."It was a sentiment echoed by hundreds.We selected the best. Forty wolves per strike team. One hundred and twenty total. The rest would defend Shadowpine when the controlled army inevitably came.Selene would lead the northern team. Thomas the eastern. And Patricia—surprisingly—volunteered to lead the western."I owe this alliance a debt," she said when I questioned her choice. "I spent years corrupting wolves. Creating monsters. This is my chance to finally save them instead."Each team needed omega support to
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