The next morning, they were planning to leave the council grounds. The packs that had refused to agree to peace had to leave first. It was their law; it prevented those packs from remaining behind and planning any kind of surprise attack.
So in the morning, the Protectors had led Victor and his pack first off the grounds. Then the rest had been followed a safe distance home. The Protectors accompanied these packs directly home, making sure they actually went home and not veered right off to have their own council elsewhere.
None of the packs could help what happened after that, but the Protectors would be on high alert.
After all, some wolves had made declarations for war.
The two feuding wolf packs left second, as they needed to head home and prepare for visitors. They also couldn’t be the last packs remaining, in case they decided to wage war right at the council grounds in an Alpha’s fight.