Chapter 23:Telling my Dad about Archie

Elder Collins speaks up. "The elders sometimes have secret missions where we have someone prepared to sneak in with the hunters to get inside information for us if we have an idea that they're planning to hurt a member of our pack."

"So Geece's brother, Talfie, had done these secret missions for them in the past and he'd gotten really good, so the elders always went to him first when they needed to do things like this. One time, we had gotten word from another pack that a hunter had gotten onto their property a few weeks prior, and as they had been tracking

them, they realized that they were coming towards our camp so they wanted to warn us, Austin explained.

"Okay, so he pretended to be a hunter and joined the group of them that were coming close to the pack?" l asked, still extremely confused.

Robert nodded his head, finally speaking

up for the first time since Geece's name had been brought up. "Yeah, we prepared him for about a week before sending him in to pretend to be a hunter t