I spend the next two days in West Gulch, with Maggie. She does an amazing job as my liaison to the humans of the outlying towns. Maybe her job isn’t as hard as I’d feared it would be. The towns around Springwater have been terrorized for decades. Everyone has lost people to the Bloodfangs. It’s not hard to convince them to fight back.

There’s some uneasiness, between the Ironfurs and the humans. Just like Carl, the humans here have only known wolves as predators, but ...