I met with more of my people, thanking them for their service, appreciating their kind wishes, and promising them that I would help them as much as I could. Once the crowd thinned out a bit, heading into the numerous buildings of the facility, I turned to my elders, Father Ernest and Thomas.
“Did either of you expect this to happen?” I asked.
Father Thomas shook his head slowly. “I had come here to avert war. We thought that the wolves would turn on each other. Never in a million years would I have expected them to unite. And you did that! The wolf spirit would be proud of you.”
“I guess we should head back to the reservation,” Father Ernest said. “Tell them that there are no packs anymore. That it’s all just one big happy family.”
“You don’t sound too happy about it,” I said as we got
