A Tribe Divided Part Three: Challenge

Two-Spear # 3 "A Tribe Divided Part Three: Challenge"Two-Spear is impatient for the first time. There's another delay, humans hunting. There are three men and a woman with a child. Two-Spear and No-Name attack. The three men are killed and the woman runs. He killed her husband and brother and now she begs for her life. He kills her and leaves her son alive. At the holt Willowgreen can still feel Graywolf's touch. A cub grows inside her. Rellah finds her and points out that Two-Spear has yet to father an heir. Skyfire, Icetooth, and Graywolf are out hunting. Graywolf is distracted, thinking about Willowgreen. They couldn't wait for Two-Spear to return. They find the three hunters Two-Spear killed. It's the work of wolf jaws. They wonder what happened. They also find the human cub, left to die. Skyfire finds a strip of leather from her brother's spear. Two-Spear and No-Name return to the holt. He hits them with a painful sending for council. Willowgreen is happy to see him but he pushes her back. Rellah makes a comment and the chief threatens her at spear-point. He saw their destiny, they must embrace their wolf-blood and destroy the humans. There must be no mercy. Some of the tribe will stand with him. Skyfire won't. She has no wish to slaughter humans. There's no honor in leaving a child to perish. The tribe no longer wants his mad leadership. She challenges him.