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Chapter 148: The Diary

작가: Kurgusal Izdusumler
last update 게시일: 2026-10-26 00:26:18

We went to Boise in the night.

There were six trucks and the whole of the line and the whole of the pack and the twelve from the room and the keeper of the room and the old Beta and the whole of the eleven Alphas of the north and we went down the ridge road at midnight with the headlights on and the snow coming down.

I rode in the first truck with Elias and June and Mary and the register on my knees.

And the assassin walked beside the truck.

He had come out of the trees at the gap and he had asked to come with us and he had not said a word since. He walked in the snow at the side of the road with his black coat and his hands in his pockets and the whole of the line watched him and did not say anything.

At Walla Walla we stopped for fuel and the assassin came to the window.

“Alpha,” he said. “There is a thing I have to give you.”

He put a book in my hand.

It was small and it was black and it had a lock on it and the lock was broken.

“What is it?” I said.

“It is my diary,” he said. “I have been keeping it since I was fourteen years old and I have written in it every day and there is a thing in it that you should read before the hearing.” He put his hand on the window. “It is the history of the room. The whole of it. I have been the Council’s hand since I was taken out of the room in 1954 and I have been the one who took the children and the silver and the whole of it, and I have written down every name and every date.”

I opened the book.

The first page was dated 1954 and it was in a hand that was young and careful.

It said: My name is Erik and I am twelve years old and I have been taken out of the room and put in the north. The man who took me out is named Silas and he is a clerk and he has told me that I am going to be a Council wolf and that I am never going to speak of the room again.

I turned the pages.

I have been told that I am a cursed wolf and that the curse is in my blood and that the Council is going to use me. I do not feel cursed. I feel like a boy.

I have taken a child out of the room and put him in the Coeur d’Alene pack. His name is Thomas. He is three years old. He cried.

I have taken a child out of the room and put her in the Kessler pack. Her name is Ruth. She is two years old.

The keeper has told me that the room is going to be closed and that the whole of it is going to be moved to a new building. I have told her that the room cannot be closed because the room is the whole of the Council.

I turned the pages.

And then I found the page.

It was dated 1954 and it was in a different hand and it was older and it was written in ink that had gone brown.

It said: This is the record of the room and it has been kept since 1802. The room was built by the Council of Alphas in the year 1802 and it has been kept for two hundred years. The Council has been collecting the cursed wolves since the first year and it has been using them since the first year and the whole of it has been going on since before the founders came to the Palouse.

I sat in the truck.

“Two hundred years,” I said.

“Two hundred years,” the assassin said. “The room is not the founders’ room. The founders did not build it. The Council built it in 1802 and the founders found it and used it and the whole of it has been going on since before any of us were born.”

I turned the page.

It said: The cursed wolves are not cursed. They are the line and the line has silver in its blood and the Council has been taking the silver since 1802. The room has bred the line for two hundred years and it has taken the children and the silver and the whole of it has been the Council’s strength.

And under it, in a different hand, there was a line dated 1954.

It said: I am the keeper of the room and my name is Mary and I have read this page and I am going to keep the second register and I am going to hide the children and the whole of it is going to be found one day.

I closed the book.

“The Council has been doing this for two hundred years,” I said.

“Two hundred years,” the assassin said. “And the whole of the territory has been standing on it and the whole of the north has been standing on it and the whole of the Council has been standing on it and nobody has ever asked.” He put his hand on the window. “And I have been the Council’s hand for twenty-five years and I have taken the children and the silver and the whole of it and I did not know what I was.”

I put the book in my jacket.

“Then you are going to stand in that hearing,” I said. “And you are going to tell the whole of it.”

The assassin looked at me.

“I am going to be executed,” he said.

“You are going to be tried,” I said. “And you are going to tell the truth and the whole of the Council is going to hear it and the whole of the territory is going to hear it. And then the Council is going to decide what to do with you.”

He stood in the snow.

“All right,” he said.

We came into Boise at dawn.

The Council building was at the end of the street and the whole of the street was full of wolves and the whole of the building was lit up and the whole of the Council of Alphas was inside.

And there was a wolf on the steps.

He was old and he had a staff and he was the Alpha of the Alphas and he was not smiling.

“Alpha,” he said. “The Council is sitting and the whole of it is inside and the whole of the territory is outside and the whole of it has been waiting for you since midnight.” He put his staff on the ground. “And there is a thing I have to tell you before you go in. The Council has voted. The Council has voted to put the whole of the line in the room.”

I stood on the steps.

“Then the Council is going to have to vote again,” I said.

And I went in.

The chamber was round and it was full and the whole of the Council of Alphas was in it and the whole of the territory was in the gallery and the whole of it was silent.

I walked into the middle of the chamber with the register in my hand and the diary in my jacket and the whole of the line behind me.

And then a wolf stood up at the back of the chamber.

She was old and she had white hair and she had a cane and she said, “I am the Luna’s granddaughter and I have been hunted by this Council for forty years and I am going to speak.”

I turned around.

“Who are you?” I said.

“My name is Ilse,” she said. “And I am your cousin.”

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