Ryder
I hadn’t planned to stay in this region a single day longer than the summit required.
That wasn't new. I never planned to stay longer than required anywhere. Regional pack summits were one of the few things in my life that I had genuinely never found a way to make useful, no matter how many I sat through or how carefully I paid attention to what people said and what they meant.
Every summit was always so similar. Pack Alphas arrived, sat down, said things that sounded reasonable but meant very little, agreed to things they had already decided they weren't going to do, and went home feeling like they had accomplished something.
I had been doing this for fifteen years.
By the end of the second day, I could have written out every remaining conversation in advance and been right a
