WHAT THE PACK KNOWS Wolves were, in Sera's experience, not a subtle species. They communicated in frequencies most of them didn't consciously name,scent and posture and the particular quality of attention someone paid to a room versus a person and they processed this information constantly, collectively, in the running background of pack awareness that never fully switched off. Which meant that by the morning after the study couch, the pack knew. Not all of them. Not in the form of explicit knowledge that anyone could have pointed at and named. But the awareness moved through Silverwood like weather moving through trees, visible in its effect before anyone could locate its source. She noticed it in the quality of people's silences when she and Roger entered a room together. In the way

