After cleaning up from lunch and completing some additional chores, I headed to my room and waited. Since dinner was not being served at the packhouse tonight, I wasn’t sure when the best time to leave would be. I contemplated what I knew about patrols, checkpoints, and what I thought the warriors would be doing with the Alpha, Luna, and Beta gone. The one thing I wasn’t sure of was when to expect the patrols passing by the creek. I would need to leave shortly after they left the area around the creek. All of this was risky. A good, well-organized pack would not be so easy to escape, and I had already been unsuccessful. I paced around the room. It was well after dark at this point, and I knew I had to leave soon. I checked my backpack, the nervous energy of leaving running through me. I needed to get out of here. A knock on the door startled me, causing me to jump, nearly stumbling over my own feet. I pushed the backpack off the bed, hiding it on the other side
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