"Eli has already briefed you on everything else, so we will have our next pack meeting in a week, usual time. If there aren't any other questions, then you all are dismissed." There were no other questions, and I noticed the pack begin to disperse, many of them still glancing at me. I turned my head away, unable to deal with so many wolves at once. That hadn't gone worse than expected but I wished their reactions would have been friendlier. I guess I couldn't hope for a warm welcoming given which pack I was from. My pack would not have treated an outsider from the Black Mountains Pack any differently, I knew. I noticed that two wolves, a male and a female, had come forward and Gabriel had walked over to meet them, so I stood on my own an awkward distance from the others. Although my Wolf

