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Spring Break and Selfless Sacrifice

Author: Thomas Morau
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CHAPTER 22

Spring Break and Selfless Sacrifice

– March 21, 2027 – Spring Break

The valley spends the shortest day of the year preparing for the longest night.

3:00 p.m. – Calder pack house

Fifty-three coyotes in various stages of shift fill the clearing.

Some still human, some half-wolf, some fully four-legged.

Calder stands on the porch in full alpha war-form, eight feet tall, silver-black fur rippling.

He looks at me and nods once.

Permission granted.

Tonight the pack answers to the storm que
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