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Chapter 83: We survived here before the fox female arrived · Oct 31, 2026

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51 Chapter 51: No, You are not going in there with him 2026-10-31
52 Chapter 52: The Snatched Cub 2026-10-31
53 Chapter 53: Finally Out 2026-10-31
54 Chapter 54: You looked good killing that creature 2026-10-31
55 Chapter 55: I do not want to go back 2026-10-31
56 Chapter 56: Do not mess with her, or she will kill you and eat you 2026-10-31
57 Chapter 57: So fast? Where did your sadness go? 2026-10-31
58 Chapter 58: He Needs A Female 1 2026-10-31
59 Chapter 59: He Needs A Female 2 2026-10-31
60 Chapter 60: I hope a monkey jumps on you one day. Not a dangerous monkey 2026-10-31
61 Chapter 61: Mama ride Papa! 2026-10-31
62 Chapter 62: System’s Tasks 2026-10-31
63 Chapter 63: Three Hundred and Fifty 2026-10-31
64 Chapter 64: They would not stop crying to see you. I brought them closer, but they tried to run toward the gate 2026-10-31
65 Chapter 65: If you ignore me and get infected, I will shoot you through the head before you enter Riverbone 2026-10-31
66 Chapter 66: I cannot believe you are still alive 2026-10-31
67 Chapter 67: You think you can walk away from me? 2026-10-31
68 Chapter 68: She hit Mama! 2026-10-31
69 Chapter 69: Five Slaps! 2026-10-31
70 Chapter 70: Your face is harder than hers 2026-10-31
71 Chapter 71: Now that my female has finished speaking, I can deal with you 2026-10-31
72 Chapter 72: Your speech is finished. Release me, you shameless bastard 2026-10-31
73 Chapter 73: Papa jealous! 2026-10-31
74 Chapter 74: The Selection 2026-10-31
75 Chapter 75: Mama has not eaten for many days. She keeps giving me her food 2026-10-31
76 Chapter 76: The Cubs Finally Had Names 1 2026-10-31
77 Chapter 77: The Cubs Finally Had Names 2 2026-10-31
78 Chapter 78: You Do Not Own Him 2026-10-31
79 Chapter 79: My family fed him after his parents disappeared. We gave him shelter. We kept him alive. He owes us 2026-10-31
80 Chapter 80: She already collected a panther and a snake! Why does she need him too? 2026-10-31
81 Chapter 81: You have been glaring at roasted meat for half the day 2026-10-31
82 Chapter 82: If You Cannot Convince Them, We Stay 2026-10-31
83 Chapter 83: We survived here before the fox female arrived 2026-10-31
84 Chapter 84: Did you just take food out of my mouth? 2026-10-31
85 Chapter 85: The Cubs Nearly Died Proving Mama Was Right 2026-10-31
86 Chapter 86: Papa! Mama! Help me! Miko falling! 2026-10-31
87 Chapter 87: Whose idea was it? 2026-10-31
88 Chapter 88: You do not risk your life because someone talks badly about me 2026-10-31
89 Chapter 89: Moving an entire tribe because four cubs entered a hole is madness 2026-10-31
90 Chapter 90 - 91: She is angry with you 2026-10-31
91 Chapter 91 - 92: At least Willowbank exists nearby. Ironwood Basin comes from your mysterious magic, which no one can inspect 2026-10-31
92 Chapter 92 - 93: Perhaps your sisters feel the little key walking through their roots 2026-10-31
93 Chapter 93 - 94: The Forest Begins Moving 2026-10-31
94 Chapter 94 - 95: Get the cubs! 2026-10-31
95 Chapter 95 - 96: If you have finished mating with each other’s faces, move 2026-10-31
96 Chapter 96: We are trapped! 2026-10-31
97 Chapter 97: Run. 2026-10-31
98 Chapter 98: Let me go! My brother was behind us! 2026-10-31
99 Chapter 99: Are you not afraid of me? 2026-10-31
100 Chapter 100: The Forest of Borrowed Voices 2026-10-31

Chapter 83: Chapter 83: We survived here before the fox female arrived

By sunset, Riverbone’s central clearing was packed.

The tribe stood inside the inner root walls.

The first ten accepted survivors stood among them under guard.

Garran, Maela and several former Sunmane leaders had been allowed into the gathering because the decision could affect the outer camp.

The remaining refugees stayed beyond the boundary, close enough to listen but not close enough to rush the tribe if panic broke out.

Swanly stood in the center.

Kael stood at her right without hesitation.

Kairo, Nilo and Miko stood directly in front of his legs like three tiny guards.

Nahla leaned on her medicine stick.

Raku folded his huge arms.

Tilla held her mink cub against her chest.

Thalara stood barefoot near the roots, listening to something no one else could hear.

Soren sat on a raised stone behind them.

Silent.

Watching.

He had been watching from the moment everyone arrived.

Not merely their faces.

Their hands.

Their tails.

Who moved closer when Swanly spoke.

Who whispered before hearing her reasons.

Who looked toward the former elders for permission to think.

Who glanced toward Garran when migration was mentioned.

Who appeared afraid.

Who appeared pleased by the thought of Swanly failing.

This gathering was not only Swanly’s test.

It was his.

Anyone who could turn against her while she tried to protect them could turn against him when Riverbone became weak.

Soren stored every reaction away.

Swanly took a breath.

”Riverbone needs to migrate.”

The clearing exploded.

”What?”

”Leave?”

”Where would we go?”

”This is our home!”

The cubs startled.

Miko immediately shouted back, ”Quiet! Mama talking!”

The shouting lowered slightly from pure surprise.

Swanly continued quickly.

”Riverbone is too close to the Rot Nest spill paths. Infected have attacked the entrance repeatedly. Yesterday, three hundred and fifty of them were outside your barrier.”

A male called out, ”You killed them.”

”And what happens when five hundred come?”

No one answered.

”Our food is limited. Clean water is limited. More survivors mean less space, less meat and more sickness if we stay crowded together.”

Nahla struck her stick against the ground.

”She is right about the water.”

Heads turned toward her.

The old otter healer’s ears flattened.

”It already tastes wrong after heavy rain. I have boiled it twice and still smelled rot beneath the mud.”

Unease moved through the tribe.

Raku spoke next.

”The outer walls survived the last horde because the barrier held.”

He pointed toward a long crack running through one root wall.

”It will not hold forever.”

Tilla hugged her cub closer.

”I support leaving.”

Her voice shook, but she raised it.

”I nearly lost my cub once. I will not wait for infected to enter his sleeping place before admitting this land is dangerous.”

Kael said nothing.

He simply stepped closer to Swanly.

His presence was his answer.

Thalara suddenly tilted her head.

”The roots beneath Riverbone have begun listening to something far away.”

Everyone turned toward her.

Thalara smiled.

”They do not like what they hear.”

Silence dropped like a corpse.

Swanly pressed two fingers against her forehead.

”Your smile makes everything ten times worse.”

Thalara’s smile slowly disappeared.

”But I am not lying.”

”I know.”

The creator-being looked faintly wounded.

She had heard something beneath the roots.

A distant scrape.

A call too deep for ordinary ears.

But Riverbone had warriors.

Swanly had weapons.

If something came, they would fight it as they always did.

Thalara released a sad sigh.

Swanly ignored her before the entire tribe panicked over a sound that had not arrived yet.

A former Riverbone elder stepped forward.

His old brown ears lay flat against his head.

”We survived here before the snow fox female arrived.”

Several former elders murmured agreement.

Swanly looked at him.

”You survived behind a barrier while three hundred and fifty infected waited outside your gate.”

The elder’s mouth tightened.

”We did not ask you to fight them alone.”

”No. You were too busy waiting for them to disappear through the power of hope.”

Several younger hunters looked down to hide smiles.

Another elder snapped, ”Do not mock us. You have been here only a short time and already speak as if Riverbone belongs to you.”

Swanly’s expression cooled.

”It does not belong to me. That is why I am standing here trying to convince you instead of dragging you out by your tails.”

Garran stepped forward.

The former Sunmane chief placed both hands on his staff.

”Moving more than one hundred people through an infected forest without a known destination would be foolish.”

His voice was measured.

Reasonable.

But his eyes were sharp.

This was an opportunity.

Frightened people wanted an older male who sounded certain.

If Swanly failed, Garran could begin gathering influence among both the refugees and Riverbone’s dissatisfied elders.

Soren noticed the slight lift of Garran’s chin.

He remembered it.

Maela spoke next, her tone soft enough to pretend innocence.

”Some females arrive in a tribe and immediately begin turning everything upside down.”

Her eyes rested on Swanly.

”It would be unfortunate if Riverbone lost its home because someone wanted to prove she was important.”

Kael growled.

Swanly raised one hand, stopping him.

Then she smiled at Maela.

”Some females arrive after their own tribe collapses and still believe they have the right to whisper insults about the woman helping feed their people.”

Maela’s face stiffened.

”I did not mention you.”

”Good. Then you have no reason to look offended.”

A few Riverbone females laughed openly.

Maela’s claws curled, but she did not dare admit what she had meant.

Selka was not allowed anywhere near the inner gathering, but two of her supporters watched from the outer camp with ugly expressions.

Soren noted them too.

One of the former elders raised his voice.

”Migration means cubs dying on the road. Wounded males falling behind. Food lost. Shelter abandoned.”

Another said, ”Where is this safer land?”

Swanly’s jaw tightened.

”We find it.”

”You want us to abandon everything before finding it?”

”No. We prepare scouts, supplies and a route.”

The murmuring grew.

Then Soren finally spoke.

”She has not proven we must leave yet.”

Swanly slowly turned her head.

Betrayal punched straight through her chest.

The bastard.

He had made her stand here.

He had watched her argue.

Now he was making everything harder.

The reaction was immediate.

”If the ruler says there is no proof...”

”Lord Soren is right.”

”We respect Swanly, but migration is dangerous.”

”She must prove it first.”

Even people who liked her began nodding.

Not because they hated her.

Because Soren was their ruler, and leaving Riverbone could kill them.

Swanly understood that.

She still wanted to launch herself at him and claw that calm expression off his beautiful face.

The cubs did not understand at all.

Kairo stepped forward with both hands on his waist.

”Do not talk to Mama like that.”

Nilo copied him.

”Mama knows danger.”

Miko pointed at the crowd.

”If you want die, go die!”

Swanly’s eyes widened.

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