"Often the world around us feels dark and alone, and our hearts cry out for peace, love, stillness, and joy. Yet we forget that we are always surrounded by light and warmth and it is already ours. We just have to reach out for it."

I said as I looked out among my gathered pack.

"The men fear us and our beasts because they do not understand the beast inside themselves. The savage part of them that they deny. The part that is more like us. They cannot stand it, so they reject us and themselves. They hurt us and hunt us out of fear that is all."

As he said this, a wolf ,old in the pack, approached the front of the crowd and spoke.

"I am very old now Kierrn, I have seen the things Man has done to us and i will no longer stand for it."

He turns to the pack.

"Look at what they've done to us, in the Great Age millions of our kind were spread across this land. We thrived on reindeer and moose."

He started pacing in front of the assembled crowd

"Now we are reduced to a handful per pack. It was horrid, our fathers were killed on sight.

He glared up at me.

"What do you have to say to that oh so great Pack-Leader."

"We should forgive them, there are those among them that work to save us. Their race deserves some leniency."

I replied

"No, I say that we gather all the wolves in this land and make a war against them."

There was a rumble of assent from the gathered pack.

he growled

This was too much

"You forget yourself i am still in charge of this pack, THERE WILL BE NO WAR."
I roared at him

He never flinched

he turned back to the crowd

"What kind of leader wont even stand up for his own pack."

he glanced back at me one more time and said

"I am going to start this war against the humans, and i am going to win with or with out you permission. All those who are with me follow."

With that last comment he turned and loped towards the trees.

A full three-fourths of the pack followed

"Garret, you fool you will get us all destroyed."