[Austin]
“Ladies and gentlemen, please follow us into the packhouse. None of you have winter clothes and it’s far too cold to conduct our business out here. The first seating of lunch will be served in an hour. We’ll get you sworn into the pack and start finding places for all of you to live. Some will be temporary, but we can get many of you into homes today,” Alpha Trent announced.
The crowd was silent. Parents picked up their small children. Others grabbed their bags for them and we followed the ranked members of Hallowed Moon into the packhouse. I helped my father move while Gemma grabbed his bag of things. It wasn’t much. Most of these people were traveling with only the clothing they owned.
It was hard to see them all as family, but I knew I’d get there. We found a table in the
