582 The pack run (3)

Mindy and Gideon reached the podium that was built for this occasion.

In the middle was an altar with a fire on top that was crackling since that afternoon.

Gideon immediately got busy arranging some items on the altar, and Mindy wanted to take a good look at the people gathered. With just a single glance she was confident that there were more than three thousand people. If this was the Blue River pack, this would probably be the whole pack, yet here people were still coming. It was massive.

Mindy's mood was dampened by the fact that she didn't know anyone. She grew up as the princess of the Blue River pack and faces there were at least familiar while everyone knew her name, yet now every gaze she met was questioning as people obviously wondered what she was doing up there.

It was strange to be surrounded by the crowd, yet feel alone.