Thirty minutes later… (that is, one hour, and thirty minutes later after Derek had been given the medicinal herb)

“We can’t wait here all day. It’s night already. We should take Derek home, to our pack’s doctor.” Alpha Peter said to Esther, when he observed no change in his son’s condition.

He had been in a meeting with his council, and the Alpha of a neighboring pack, which had tended some complaints to him. According to the Alpha, his brother had invited his pack ...