76 One path to survival (1/2)

Laune looked down at the wolves observing their futile efforts to escape from the hole in the ground.

The wolves who had been worn down from chasing the rabbit and then their efforts to escape from the hole began to panic further.

One wolf came up with his own thoughts since the leader was believed to be dead. ”If we continue to climb out then we will be easy targets for the enemy, we could just stay here and wait it out until they lose interest.”

If the wolves stayed there then the enemy would have to come to them and give them the advantage or the enemy would leave after getting bored.

The other wolves paused a moment before nodding in response.

Unfortunately for them...

Laune watched them with emotionless eyes, noticing that they decided to stay where they were there was no trace of surprise or anger towards their actions.

Almost as if she had already expected this to happen.

She began to speak as her voice sounded very calm and relaxed. ”If you want to see who can wait longer I have more patience than you. You can not last long before you will start to need food or water.”

The wolves bodies froze in place after hearing her words, she was correct.

If the wolves became hungry while trapped the only way to overcome their hunger would be to eat one another.

Doing so would decrease their numbers just to stall for time, would they still be able to hold out until the enemy gave up.

The enemy sounded well prepared so there were chances that they brought food with them before encountering them.

Seeing that her words were working she continued. ”The longer you stay down there the easier it will be to kill all of your pack. I am sure some will come soon after noticing something is wrong, there is only one way in and out of the valley and they are now trapped. The longer you wait to climb out of there the more lives I take and the larger my food supplies are.”

This was a completely shameless threat towards them but Laune spoke calmly without a trace of shame on her face.

Now the wolves began to know why the tiger above them was so calm, this whole plan that was executed was done in order to split the alpha from the pack, use the hole in the ground to trap the strongest wolves that had any ability to fight.

The next part of the plan relied heavily on Laune maintaining the high ground and fighting the escaping wolves one on one.

So if the wolves did not try to escape then she would have to motivate them into doing so, with the lives of their pack that could not defend themselves.