It was lonely in the trailer, but it was lonelier being landlocked at an empty house. He even slept there, with his wolf family, while I stayed up late and flicked through the TV channels. He was down in one of the enclosures with Mestawe, who was pregnant for the first time, and he was trying to forge a relationship with her so she’d pick him as the nanny for the pups. On the day I left my mom and her brand-spanking-new family, my dad was not exactly waiting for me with open arms. Because of this, some people thought he was a genius.
By the time I moved in with him, he’d already gotten five packs to accept him as a bona fide member-worthy of living with, eating with, and hunting with them, in spite of the fact that he was human. My dad believed that infiltrating a pack was far more educational than observing from afar the way biologists did. He’d eat from the carcass of a calf with wolves on either side of him, his hands and his mouth bloody. He’d roll around in the mud with Sibo and Sobagw, the numbers wolves he’d steer clear of Pekeda, the beta of the pack. Well, my dad did take walks in the woods, but they were inside the pens he’d built for his packs, and he was busy being a wolf. I guess I’d pictured my dad and me making pancakes together on Sunday morning, or playing hearts, or taking walks in the woods.
I thought this alternative beat living with my mom and Joe and the miracle twins, but it hadn’t been the smooth transition I’d hoped for. Since that was where my father spent 99 percent of his time, it was expected that I follow. That’s where my father’s captive wolf packs were housed, along with gibbons, falcons, an overweight lion, and the animatronic T. Or, more accurately, my clothes were once again hanging in my former bedroom, but I was living out of a backpack in a trailer on the north end of Redmond’s Trading Post & Dinosaur World. I was thirteen, and I’d just moved back in with my father. Seconds before our truck slams into the tree, I remember the first time I tried to save a life.
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