An Open Mind

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Throughout that day, Brad stuck around my pack members and I to ensure that we settled in properly. Gone was the snark and overconfidence I had gotten used to when I was a member of his pack, and in its place was a gentleness I was not used to.

Members of his pack had come over and over, persistently, in claims to help us settle in, and although I felt like they were doing that more to observe my pack members more than anything, I also felt like there was a genuine desire to make us feel welcome. The interactions were cautious but friendly, a tentative reaching out between two packs that had once been at odds.us but friendly, a tentative reaching out between two packs that had once been at odds.

As the sun began to dip , many hours later,