Chapter Twenty- Two (Anders)

I walked into the dining hall, where Thane had brought the Elders for our meeting.

An elder is a wolf that has reached at least nine hundred years of age. The pack believed, if you could live that long and survive the wars that culled our kind, that they deserved a place in the elder council. The elder council decided on pack laws and made sure the Alpha followed the traditions and pack ways. If they thought an Alpha was corrupt or unwilling to follow tradition, they would overthrow him and his successor would take over, and the predecessor was exiled or, sometimes, executed. Each pack had their own elder council. Our pack had four.

Ashina, the only female and the youngest Elder, is around nine hundred years old. Though she only looks twenty-one, she kept her long dark brown hair braided to frame her heart-shaped face. Her piercing green eyes reminded me of Isla.

“Why have you summoned us?” Zeeb questioned, with his long black hair falling across his scared face. He had dark, threat