Btw, this is set in the future. Currently the year is 2032. I also want this chapter to be more about Hailey and Dick because, though Zatanna is the main character, you shouldn't neglect the supporting cast.
Three Wolves and One Human
Chapter 20:
History
Hailey walked along the river in the forest and looked into the flooded waters. She had the memory of being underwater in the back of her mind. It was cold and she couldn't get her head above the water. The currents were so fast. She was so scared. Hailey looked around and saw an arrow head just under the water by the riverbank.
It was time for lunch and her calls for her to come back hadn't worked so Zatanna went into the woods to find her youngest daughter. She thought Hailey had been disappointed by the wolf at the animal sanctuary.
"Hailey?!" Zatanna called "Hailey Sindella Grayson! Come here, it's time for lunch! Hailey!"
She walked along the river to see her child leaning out into it. Zatanna's heart pounded and she ran to her child. She yanked Hailey from the edge and pulled her into her arms. Hailey looked at her mother in confusion with the arrow head in her hands.
"Mom, what's wrong? I was just getting an arrow head from the river. Lookie!" Hailey said, showing her mother.
Zatanna took it and looked back at her youngest daughter. Hailey was happily inspecting her newfound treasure as her mother carried her home.
That night, Dick drilled a hole in the arrow head so the pointed end would point down. He helped Hailey thread a piece of leather through the hole and tie the ends to make a necklace. Hailey opened a book on American history and began searching to see if she could find out what tribe used the kind of arrow head she found.
"Daddy, I can't find it," she said, frowning.
"You know what? There's a Natural History Museum near by. It has an arrow head exhibit so we can see if we can find yours," said Dick "I don't have any jobs tomorrow. You want to go?"
Hailey looked at him and nodded with a smile on her face. Going out to learn was much more fun than sitting in a classroom. Roe came running in with her piggy bank and sat on the floor, ignoring them. She opened up her piggy bank and took several notes and a few coins out. She began counting her money. Roe groaned and stuffed the money back in her piggy bank.
"Not enough, Robyn?" Dick asked her.
Roe wanted to enter a skateboarding contest but the entrance fee was $50 bucks and she had to buy skate gear that fell in contest regulations so that was another $20. Zatanna and Dick said they'd pay the entrance fee if she got the $20 dollars so Roe had been doing odd jobs around the house and did a friend's paper route for $5 bucks one morning.
"I have $14 dollars," Roe said "I need $6 dollars. Is there anything I can do?"
"I'll give you a dollar to put away the dishes," said Dick.
Roe got up and ran into the kitchen with her piggy bank under her arm. Hailey looked back at the book on American history and continued to do research.
...The next morning...
Dick and Hailey came to a stop outside of the museum and they headed inside. It was quiet since everyone was home due to rain. They went straight to the arrow head exhibit and began trying to find another matching arrow head. Hailey took her necklace off and held it up to every arrow head they saw. An archeologist came out of the back to see Hailey holding her necklace up to an arrow head display case.
"Excuse me, where did you get that arrow head?" she asked, walking over to them.
"Hey, you look like my sister-in-law, Cassie Sandsmark-Drake," said Dick.
"My daughter," said Dr. Sandsmark, leaning over to look at the arrow head "So, where'd you get it?"
"I found out in the river by our house," said Hailey "We're trying to find the tribe it comes from,"
Dr. Sandsmark looked at it.
"I think I know," she said "Come with me," and she walked through a door the public weren't allowed through.
Dick and Hailey looked at each other and they followed her in.
It was a storage room of unused exhibits. Dr. Sandsmark asked to see Hailey's arrow head and she looked at it through a magnifier glass. She took another arrow head out of a box and put it besides Hailey's.
"If your daughter is married to my uncle, what does that make you to me?" Hailey asked.
"Aunt Cassie is your adoptive paternal aunt-by-marriage so Dr. Sandsmark is..." Dick thought about it "Your great-aunt? Nah, that's not it... hmm... your adoptive paternal aunt-in-law-by-marriage? I don't know,"
Hailey tried to climb onto a stool and Dr. Sandsmark helped her up to look at the two arrow heads. Dr. Sandsmark showed her how the two arrow heads may have looked different but they had the same basic design. This meant they had been made by people who knew the same techniques.
"So, where does my arrow head come from?" Hailey asked "I wanna know!"
"For the past few months, I've suspected an undiscovered tribe used to live in this area," said Dr. Sandsmark, taking a field journal out and showing them "I call it, the Lupus tribe,"
"That's Latin for wolf," said Hailey "I read it in my Big Book of Animals,"
"That's right," said Dr. Sandsmark, smiling "From what I can tell, the Lupus tribe had an obsession with wolves. I found cave paintings depicting a great battle and the people of the Lupus tribe actually changing into wolves. I have photos, would you like to see?"
Dick was shocked. A tribe of their species? Proof of their species? His mother did say a group of their people left Romania to come to America centuries ago (including his own several-times-great-grandmother). Dr. Sandsmark showed them a photo of the cave paintings depicting men and women with the heads of wolves standing amongst actual wolves that wore, what looked like, ripped clothing. Hailey was fascinated by the photos and Dr. Sandsmark gave her copies.
That night, Hailey put the photos up on the pinboard by her bed and smiled at them. She took her arrow head necklace off and hung it on her bedpost before sitting down. She got under the covers, turned on her nightlight and turned off her lamp. Hailey smiled and fell asleep, thinking of the Lupus tribe.