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Chapter 103: Elias and I Fight
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2026-10-26 00:17:28The chamber went quiet and the thirty-three Alphas looked up at the skylight and the chief clerk stood at the door with his folder in his hand and did not move.
“Dale,” I said. “Come down.”
“I am not coming down,” Dale said. “I am standing on the roof of the Council chamber with forty wolves and I am going to say what I came to say and then I am going to let the Alphas vote.”
“Dale.”
“Beta,” he said. “I am not going to hurt anybody. I am standing on a roof. I have a rifle and I have not fired it and I am not going to fire it.” He looked down at the Alphas. “I am a wolf of the Palouse Ridge pack and I killed Owen Halloran and I took the Council’s money and I lied to my pack for four months. I am not here to be forgiven. I am here to be a witness.”
The chamber was silent.
“The chief clerk is going to walk out of this chamber,” Dale said. “And when he walks out he is going to go to the archive and he is going to burn the file. I know he is going to do it because he told me he was going to do it. He came to me on Tuesday night and he told me that if I would take the roof of the Council chamber with forty wolves he would give me a pardon and a seat in Boise and he would burn the file and the whole of it would go away.”
The Alphas turned and looked at the chief clerk.
“And I told him I would do it,” Dale said. “And then I went out and I got forty wolves and I brought them here. And I did not bring them to hold the roof. I brought them to hold the chief clerk.”
The chamber broke into noise.
The chief clerk dropped his folder and ran for the door.
The door was open and there were two Riverside wolves in the hall and they caught him.
He went down on the floor of the chamber with his folder and his papers and his white hair and the thirty-three Alphas stood up and Ada Kessler brought her stick down on the floor three times.
“Sit down,” she said. “All of you, sit down.”
Nobody sat down.
And then Elias took my arm and pulled me out of the chamber and into the corridor.
“Wren,” he said. “We have to go.”
“What?”
“The chief clerk is caught and Dale is on the roof and the Alphas are in the chamber and the whole of it is in front of them. And the Council has forty wolves on the roof and a hundred in the streets and every one of them is going to be asking who gave the order.” He looked at me. “It is not over. The Council is not one man and it is not one clerk. It is a hundred wolves in gray coats and they are going to come for you.”
“Then let them come.”
“Wren.”
“Elias, I am not going to run. I have been running since the calf in the combine yard and I have run out of road.” I pulled my arm out of his hand. “The Alphas are in that chamber and the crates are in that chamber and the register is in that chamber and the Luna’s line is in that chamber. If I walk out now the whole of it goes with me.”
“And if you stay,” Elias said, “you are going to be arrested and the Alphas are going to rule against you and the curse is going to stay on me and the land is going to stay with the Council.” He put his hand on the wall beside my head. “Wren. I have been a wolf on the run for seventeen years. I know what it looks like when the Council closes its hand. It closes on the wolf in the middle of the room and it does not close on the wolf who is already on the road.”
“So you want me to run.”
“I want you to leave,” Elias said. “Tonight. With the crates and the stones and the Alphas and the whole of the Luna’s line. Go back to the territory and go into the circle at the full moon and break the curse and let the Alphas rule from the outside.”
“And what about the Council?”
“I will stay,” Elias said. “I will stay and I will be the wolf the Council takes. I will stand in front of them and I will tell them what I am and what I did and I will let them put me in a cell and I will keep them busy while you get to the circle.”
I stared at him.
“You want to trade yourself,” I said.
“I want to be the thing the Council is looking at while you are the thing the Council is not looking at.”
“No.”
“Wren.”
“No.” I put my hand on his chest. “I have lost my brother and my mother and my co-op and my mill and my rank and I am not going to lose you. Not to a cell and not to a trade and not to a Council that has been taking Lunas for eighty-five years.” I looked up at him. “You have been on your own for seventeen years and you have been running and you have been in the trees and you have been carrying the curse and you think that the way to keep me safe is to stand between me and the thing that is coming. I am not going to let you.”
“It is not your decision.”
“It is my decision,” I said. “You are my mate and I am the Beta and I am the Luna’s line and I am telling you that we do not trade wolves to the Council. Not you. Not me. Not anybody.”
Elias stood in the corridor with his hand on the wall.
“And if they come for you tonight?” he said. “If there are a hundred wolves in gray coats and they come for you in the street outside this building, what are you going to do?”
“I am going to stand in the door and I am going to tell them that the Alphas are in the chamber and that the Luna’s line is in the chamber and that the register is on the table and that if they want to take me they are going to have to take me in front of forty Alphas and five packs.”
“And if they do not care about the Alphas?”
“Then they will have to care about the pack,” I said. “And the pack is forty wolves from the mountains and forty wolves from the Kessler and thirty wolves from the Palouse and a hundred wolves from the Riverside.” I put my hand on his face. “You have been alone for seventeen years. You are not alone now. You have not been alone since the combine yard.”
He looked at me for a long moment.
“I do not know how to do it,” he said. “I do not know how to stand in a room and let other wolves stand with me. I have been the wolf who stands in front of the door for seventeen years and I do not know how to be the wolf who lets someone else stand in front of the door.”
“Then learn,” I said.
He put his forehead against mine.
“I am afraid,” he said.
“I know,” I said. “So am I.”
And then June came out of the chamber with her face white and her hands shaking.
“Wren,” she said. “The Alphas have voted. The motion to remove the seven Alphas has failed. And the motion to arrest you has failed. And they have voted to hear the claim of blood.”
I turned around.
“They have voted to hear it,” June said. “Tonight. In this building. In front of the full Council.”
I stood in the corridor.
“Then we go in,” I said.
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