65. Time to Learn – Part 2

~ JESSE ~

After getting a grasp on the bare skeleton of the hierarchy, there was the whole issue of the dominance challenge. I had thought a challenge was just a physical fight. One wolf fighting another for dominance based on strength. But I’d been wrong about that too.

“A wolf’s sheer will can take dominance without so much as anyone snapping teeth,” Maya had sighed. “Your human way of seeing strength, of believing it is only brute force, is so narrow—”

“No, we don’t see strength as only physical,” I had argued. “But I thought that wolves did. I thought this whole submission and dominance thing was won by fighting and whoever wi