LATER THE NEXT DAY!

The three of them, continued following the path.

Poor Humphrey was still in a huge amount of pain. Meaning they were needing to walk a lot slower than usual, for poor Humphrey's sake.

Neither Connor or Kate left far from his side.

Particularly Kate, who was basically pressed up against him, every chance she got.

But on the up side. Kate's face was doing much better, and seemed to be healing rather quickly, but it unfortunately still had three huge scratch marks, which were still abit painful towards her. But at least it stopped bleeding.

Connor was the only one who wasn't in as much pain, as the others. Because his situration of having his wind knocked out of him quickly recovers almost instantly after the person regains their breath.

But Connor still had the pain thousands of scatch marks around his full body, witch were all painful.

all three of them of thrm were currently faced with this pain, on top of everything else.

AFTER SEVERAL LONG HOURS!

It eventually appeared that the three of them were finally reaching Jasper. Kate and Humphrey started smelling familiar scents. "We are nearly there" Kate said excitedly. Connor gave a nice smile.

MUCH LATER!

The three of them were just above Jasper.

"Damn, that's a lot of wolves" Connor thought out load. As he noticed the huge amount of wolves, viewed from up here. At first Kate was going to ask why he said it, as if he never saw so many before. But then stayed quiet, as she remembered the pack, he was USE to seeing, was only half a dozen wolves. Meaning he probably hadn't. "Do want to come down and meet everyone?" Humphrey asked. "Sure" Connor replied, seeming pretty excited about it.

LATER AGAIN!

Before long, Garth, Winston, and all them, basically jumped for joy. As they spotted Humphrey and Kate had returned.

Lilly was the first to run over. As she squeezed Kate with a huge hug. Winston and Eve came shortly after, basically doing the same.

Lilly turned to Humphrey also. "Careful with him, he's recovering from a servile injury, we had on the way, involving his back nearly being broken" Kate told Lilly. Lilly nodded, even though this obviously left her with lots of questions about it, she saved them for later, and hugged Humphrey, as gently as she could.

"We were so worried" Eve told her daughter.

"Who's this?" Winston asked, as he was the first to notice Connor.

Kate turned around. "Oh, thanks for reminding me" Kate said, and she took a short cough before she continued. She told them the whole story, and about the Kodiak attack, and how Connor ended saving them from it.

"Well, That sure explains Humphrey's nearly broken back, and why your face has three huge scratch marks" Lilly replied.

"Oh... Right, that" Kate said feeling the scratch marks on her face.

"Well, you sound very brave and big hearted" Winston said to Connor. "My bravery depends on mood, or rather or not I'm feeling lazy or not" Connor playfully teased. Winston giggled.

"By the way, are you in charge here?" Connor asked.

"Well, my wife Eve and I use to be, but we are giving the role, to our daughter Kate, and her mate" Winston replied. Connor seemed really shocked by this. "LEADERS!" Connor cried, turning to Humphrey and Kate. "Ya, isn't it great" Humphrey replied happily. "Holly, carribou, no wonder you had to get back" Connor replied, still a little bit shocked.

"Why do you want to know who the leader is anyway?" Kate asked. "Well… If it's not too much trouble… I kind of want to join here… I'm tired of being a bloody lone wolf… Plus I could never join Tillers pack, and I'm never completely told why" told everyone.

There was a silence.

"I kind of feel like, it should still be your say, about this" Kate told her dad, who nodded.

"Well, I don't usually do this… But I like you, and you seem friendly enough… So, I guess that'll be alright".

"REALLY!"

"Sure, why not"

"GREAT DAIN! THAT'S GREAT!" Connor cried out excitedly jumping with joy. Everyone smiled at how happy this made him.

Shortly after that, everyone started leaving. Except Kate, who motioned Connor to stop a moment.

"You're not going to forget about Mandy are you?" She asked him. Connor studded as he tired finding an answer. "Don't forget what I told you, about not giving up on yourself" Kate told him.

Connor nodded.