LOGINShare
Chapter 129: Silas and the Pack
publish date:
2026-10-26 00:22:36I called the pack into the square at four o'clock and I did not call it a hearing and I did not call it a meeting.
I stood on the steps of the pack house with Silas beside me and the whole of the Luna's line in front of me and the seventy-one wolves who did not have a claim to the land standing at the back of the square with their hands in their pockets and their faces set.
"Pack," I said. "There is a thing you have to hear and it is not a thing I am going to say. It is a thing the investigator is going to say and he is going to say it in front of the whole of you and then the whole of you is going to decide what to do with him."
I stepped back.
Silas came forward.
He was in his gray suit and his black hair was combed and his face was pale and he had his folder under his arm and he put it down on the rail and opened it.
"My name is Silas," he said. "I have been an investigator for the Council of Alphas for nineteen years and I came to this territory in September to buy grain land and to deliver a deed." He looked at the pack. "And there is a thing about me that the Alpha has known since Boise and that the rest of you do not know. I have been forging trial claims for the Council since 1960."
The square went quiet.
"I have forged four hundred and six of them," Silas said. "I have written the names of Lunas on paper they never signed and I have used those papers to take land from eleven packs in this territory and the territories around it. I have collected the Lunas' land and I have sent it to Boise and I have been paid for it every year." He put his hand on the rail. "And I have been telling myself for nineteen years that I was only an investigator and the decision was not mine. The decision was mine. I wrote the claims."
The square was silent.
And then Mrs. Pike said, "You took my sister's land."
Silas looked at her.
"I took your sister's land," he said. "In 1963. Her name was Ellen and she was the Luna of the Clearwater pack and I wrote a claim that said she was the mate of a wolf she had never met and I filed it and the land went to the Council and the Council sold it to a farmer from Idaho." He put his hand on the rail. "I have her name in this folder. I have every name in this folder. Four hundred and six of them."
The square broke into noise.
I brought my hand down on the rail.
"Quiet," I said. "The investigator is going to finish."
The square went quiet.
Silas opened the folder.
"I am not going to ask you to forgive me," he said. "I am going to ask you to let me testify. The full Council of Alphas has ruled that the eleven Alphas of the north have been conspiring with the chief clerk for forty years. And the Council is going to hold a hearing and the hearing is going to need a witness who has written the claims and filed them and knows where every piece of paper is." He looked at the pack. "I am that witness. I am the only wolf alive who can name every claim and every clerk and every Alpha who signed one of them. And I am going to stand in that hearing and I am going to say it and then I am going to go to whatever cell the Alphas have built."
The square was quiet.
And then Mrs. Pike came forward.
She was old and she was small and she had a shawl around her shoulders and she stopped in front of Silas and looked up at him.
"You took my sister's land," she said.
"I took your sister's land."
"And you are going to give it back."
"I am going to give it back," Silas said. "I have the deed in this folder and the deed is void and the land goes back to your sister's line and your sister's line is you."
Mrs. Pike stood in the square.
And then she put her hand out and slapped him across the face.
Silas did not move.
Mrs. Pike stood there with her hand in the air and her face white and then she put her hand down and turned around and went back into the crowd.
The square was quiet.
And then the younger Corrigan boy came forward.
He was nineteen and he had his father's red face and his mother's freckles and he had a paper in his hand.
"Alpha," he said. "I have been going through the co-op books since the fire. The ones that were not burned. And there is a thing in the books that nobody has looked at." He put the paper on the rail. "It is the list of the co-op shares. Every wolf in this territory who has a share in the co-op. And there are two hundred and eleven wolves on it."
I picked up the paper.
"Two hundred and eleven," I said.
"Two hundred and eleven. And there are one hundred and forty who have a claim to the land under the deed and seventy-one who do not." He looked at me. "And the seventy-one are the wolves who came to this territory after 1891 and who have no claim under the old deeds. And they are standing at the back of this square and they are not saying anything because they think they are going to lose their farms."
I looked at the back of the square.
There were seventy-one wolves standing there and they were not saying anything.
"Then they are not going to lose their farms," I said.
I went down the steps.
"The deed to this territory is the pack's deed," I said. "And the pack deed has one hundred and forty names on it. And there are seventy-one wolves in this square who are not on it." I looked at them. "And I am going to put them on it. Tonight. Every wolf who has lived in this territory for a year and worked it is going to be on the deed. And the deed is going to be signed by the whole of the pack and it is going to be filed with the Alphas and it is going to hold."
The square was silent.
And then the oldest wolf at the back of the square came forward.
He was old and he had a beard and he had a hoe in his hand and he stopped in front of me.
"Alpha," he said. "My name is Thomas and I have been in this territory for forty years and I have never had a claim to the land and I have never asked for one. And I am going to ask for one now."
I put my hand out.
"Then you are going to have one," I said.
And then June came down the steps with the ledger under her arm.
"Wren," she said. "I have been going through the ledger. The one from the co-op. The one that survived the fire." She opened it. "And there is a page at the back that I have not read. It is in my mother's hand and it is dated 1968 and it is a list of names."
I took the ledger.
The page was in my mother's small neat hand and it was a list of names and there were seventy-one of them and they were the names of the wolves who did not have a claim to the land.
And at the top of the page there was a line in my mother's hand.
These are the wolves who came after. They are ours too.
I sat down on the steps.
Latest chapter
The New Moon Mate Chapter 200: The First Day of Forever
The whole of the mill yard was quiet and the whole of the it was the whole of the line and the whole of the it was the whole of the ground.It was the first of May and the wheat was up and the whole of the east field was green and the whole of the west line was green and the whole of the north field was green.And the whole of the mill was the whole of the keeper's house with the door that closed and the window that opened and the chair by the window and the rug on the floor and the crib in the corner.And in the crib there was a child.She was three months old and she had red hair and amber eyes and she was awake and she was making a sound that was not a word and the whole of her was the whole of the line.I picked her up.“Ilse,” I said. “The whole of the it is the whole of the it.”She made the sound again.And then Elias came in from the yard with his shirt sleeves rolled up and his hair in his eyes and his hands dirty from the fence line.“Wren,” he said. “The whole of the it is
The New Moon Mate Chapter 199: My Name in the Record
The whole of the circle was quiet and the whole of the it was the whole of the line and the whole of the it was the whole of the mark.And then the whole of the it was the whole of the record.The whole of the line went up to the pack house in the morning and the whole of the them came into the Alpha's office and the whole of the them sat down at the long table and the whole of the them had the register and the crates and the whole of the it.The whole of the record was on the table. It was the new record. It was the record of the whole of the packs and it had been bound in leather by Arthur Renn and it had a brass clasp and the whole of it was blank.And it was waiting for the whole of the it.“Alpha,” Arthur Renn said. “The whole of the it is the whole of the record. And the whole of the record is the whole of the line.” He put his hand on the book. “And the whole of the it is going to be written by the whole of the it.”I sat down at the head of the table.“Then write the whole of
The New Moon Mate Chapter 198: The Luna's Mark
The whole of the circle was quiet and the whole of the it was the whole of the line and the whole of the it was the whole of the ground.And then the whole of the it was the whole of the mark.It was not a day and it was not a night and it was not a trial. It was a thing that happened in the circle in the spring with the whole of the line around it and the whole of the ground under it.The whole of the it came at dusk on the first full moon after the trial.The whole of the line came into the circle and the whole of the pack and the whole of the territories and the whole of the east and the whole of the them stood around the flat stone and the whole of the them put their hands on the stone.And then Ada of the north came into the circle.She was old and she had a cane and a shawl and she was the keeper and she had been the keeper for eighty-five years.“Alpha,” she said. “The whole of the it is the whole of the mark.”“The whole of the it is the whole of the mark,” I said.She put the
The New Moon Mate Chapter 197: The Trial of the Century
The whole of the packs was signed and the whole of the line was one and the whole of it was the whole of the ground.And then the whole of the it was the whole of the trial.It was held in the circle in the trees in the spring when the snow was gone and the wheat was up and the whole of the east field was green.The whole of the Council came and the whole of the territories came and the whole of the east came and the whole of the north came and the whole of the line came and the whole of the it was in the east field.And in the middle of the circle there was a table and seven chairs and the whole of the Alphas of the whole of the packs sat in the chairs.I sat in the middle chair with Ilse in my arms and Elias beside me.And in front of the table there was a wolf.It was Silas and he was in a gray coat and his hands were tied and his face was gray and the whole of him was the whole of the it.“Silas,” I said.“Alpha,” he said.“The whole of the it is the whole of the trial,” I said. “
The New Moon Mate Chapter 196: The New Pack
The whole of the circle roared and the whole of the it was the whole of the line and the whole of the it was the whole of the ground.And then the whole of the it was the whole of the whole of the it.The Alpha of the Alphas stood on the flat stone with his staff in his hand and the whole of him was the whole of the it."Alpha," he said. "The whole of the it is the whole of the line and the whole of the line is the whole of the ground and the whole of the ground is the whole of the territories." He put his staff on the stone. "And the whole of the territories is not the whole of the Council and the whole of the Council is not the whole of the territories. The whole of the territories is the whole of the line."I stood in the circle."The whole of the it is the whole of the line," I said."The whole of the it is the whole of the line," the Alpha of the Alphas said. "And the whole of the line is the whole of the packs." He put his hand on his chest. "And the whole of the packs is going
The New Moon Mate Chapter 195: My Mother's Voice
The whole of the circle was quiet and the whole of the it was the whole of the line and the whole of the it was the whole of the ground.And then the wind came up.It came out of the trees and it came across the circle and the whole of the it was not the wind of January and the whole of the it was not the wind of the snow.It was warm and it smelled of pine and cedar and the inside of a cedar chest and the whole of it was the whole of the it.I stood on the flat stone with Ilse in my arms.And then I heard it.It was a voice and it was quiet and it came out of the wind and the whole of it was the whole of the it.It said: Wren.I stood in the circle.“Mama,” I said.The whole of the circle was silent.And then the voice came again.It said: I am sorry.I sat down on the flat stone.“Mama,” I said.The voice came out of the wind and the whole of it was warm.It said: I did the whole of the it the wrong way. I kept the whole of the it in a box and I paid the rent and I kept you out of t
You May Also Like
Iridian
Jane Doe909.3K viewsMy Hockey Alpha
Eve Above Story2.2M viewsAlpha's Claimed Mate
~S.Y691.9K viewsThe Dark Side Of Fate
Karima Sa'ad Usman2.3M viewsBound to the Night lord
Ore28 viewsMy Dragon, My Mate: Love across realms
Nova69 viewsTaming the Broken Mate
Tin112 viewsSubstitute For The Lycan
Melvin128 views
