The tenth year arrived the way significant years arrived in a life that had learned to be ordinary — without announcement, the calendar simply turning to it, the camp on the first morning of it looking exactly as it had looked on the last morning of the year before.She woke before dawn, as she always did.She dressed in the dark.She went to the eastern perimeter.The camp in the pre-dawn of the tenth year of the joint alliance was — she stood at the marker and looked at it and read it the way she had always read things, in layers.The surface: twelve wolves on the night rotation, two at the creek position, standard winter coverage, the bridge holding in its third winter, the northern marker posts adjusted after Kit's geological assessment, the gap analysis integrated into the standard form.The layer beneath: forty-three wolves in both camps with exchange rotation experience, carrying that experience into everything they did without being asked. Three associate member packs whose ob
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