Rourke came into the kitchen with two wolves on either side of him and his hands tied and his face bruised and his coat torn at the shoulder.He had come down the co-op road on foot in the snow and he had not eaten in two days and he was not the wolf who had stood in the pack square with a rifle. He was smaller and he was older and his eyes were red."Alpha," he said."Rourke," I said."I have come to tell you a thing," he said. "And I am going to tell it to you and then you can do whatever you want with me.""Say it.""The eleven Alphas of the north are not coming to this territory to hold a hearing," Rourke said. "They have called a hearing and they have called it for the full moon and they are going to come and they are going to stand in the square and they are going to rule." He looked at me. "But the hearing is not the point. The hearing is the cover."The kitchen was quiet."What is the point?" I said."The point is the circle," Rourke said. "The eleven Alphas of the north know
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