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Jason hopped a few steps away from the RV and took a seat on another nearby car bonnet. Coming back early had been worth the currying of favour with Winter - or, rather the cementing of his importance in Winter's crazy scheme - but it had come at the cost of potentially a far more more comfortable bed that night. He tried not to let his lamenting of the matter show too much.

"Oh Danti's dead alright." he grunted. "When the boys finished with him there wouldn't have been enough left to identify."

Winter took a few steps into the centre of the group and crouched down on his haunches, looking from one to another with a suspicious grin, like a man savouring the few moments of being the only person to know the result he was about the divulge.

"But as wolves we know that each of us is an important resource." he explained, "From what I understand, Danti was a powerful weapon who jammed at the moment he was needed. The rogues lead by Farrell became weaker without him. You have to think about the future of your pack. That's what my wolf has revealed to me, and that's what I'm teaching you all now."

He stood up again and folded his arms behind his back. "I promised I'd guide us to find the alpha who'll lead us into a new dawn. I believe that my wolf has delivered us, not only that alpha, but the remnant of the weapon that was lost. Danti, if Jason's stories are to be believed, was a deposit of great strength. We can't get Danti back, but we can get his strength back into our numbers. And that's why we've come here...to get his daughter. This 'Tabby' will be the one to begin a lineage of greatness for our pack.

"And, as it turns out, we have the son too. I don't know yet whether we will be able to acquire him, but if we can, then we will have twice the channel to Danti's strength."

Craig frowned and shook his head, "Wait...you're going to mate this girl to her own brother?"

"No idiot." Winter scowled, "She will be joined to our destined alpha."

"And why are you so afraid of the pack house? They aren't that scary. I was in one just two years ago and there isn't any big bad wolves chaining us down."

"One does well to acknowledge the mistakes of the past." Winter said, closing his eyes. "Farrell lead his pack against this same house, and it turns out they had strength on their side too. We aren't here to take the house. Not yet anyway. We are here to begin the long game...building strength of our own. Patience is something our society had lacked for too long."

"So what are you saying?" Nico growled, "That we're not going to see the benefits of all this work we're doing?"

"Calm Nico." Winter smirked, "We'll see the benefits alright. Maybe no the best of them, but trust in my wolf, for he has guided us this far, and we're already starting to see the fruits of this new enlightenment."