Chapter 251
“Normally, the alpha filling this out is not the parent of the one accused of being feral which gives your father a slight advantage. Ordinarily the council has to look over two applications and two sets of personality and mental health surveys before they can move on to the next step. With your father being both your father and the alpha only one application will need to be turned in speeding up the first step of the process.
When the application gets turned into the closest council headquarters it will be assigned to one of three council members that are a part of the Department of Rogue and Feral wolves. All three of the members have been trained to look through the application for any blank spots or unacceptable answers to the questions on the application. They will also look over the personality and mental health assessments for completion as well as any supporting documentation being submitted as proof of ferality. They are given five days to go over each application which is why I said at the beginning that you're at a disadvantage in this first step.
Once this first step is completed the head council member of the department will take a month to research every member in the department for any potential ties to the alpha, family or wolf being investigated. I put this in place to ensure neutrality towards everyone involved. Considering the harsh penalties given, especially to males, that being ruled feral has the last thing the council wants is to have ferality ruled upon by a wolf out for revenge or a wolf who owes someone a favor.”
I pause a moment to allow him to comprehend the information and form questions if he has them.
“My dad has always told me that making me a feral would be easy as he has lots of friends in high places. What if they can’t find anyone that’s not connected?”
“Right now I’m talking in general about the singular headquarter that is located closest to your pack. The council and committee has numerous headquarters all over the world. I believe your pack is located in Southern New Hampshire so if the Department Head cannot find four council members without a connection to your pack in a month then he or she will pass it on to the Southern New Hampshire committee headquarters. They will have a week to review the case and pass it on to the next closest council headquarters. The department head there will have a month to research and assign four members to the case. If neutrality can not be obtained from the council within the committee’s region then, after the third attempt, it will be relegated to the committee to assign the investigation to four council members. One way they can achieve this is by assigning council members from different headquarters to the case.
The first part of the investigation involves a more thorough review of the application. After it is initially reviewed for blanks the group of four each look at the actual answers. If they notice any answers that are inconsistent with the question being asked or it’s extremely vague, the wolf reviewing it will highlight the problem area and once they’ve gone through all the questions, they will send it back to your father with a date that he must resubmit it by.
Each of the four members must spend a week on the application but may take up to four before passing it to the next member. Once it goes through all four members, it is then assigned a priority number based on the perceived danger you pose to the pack and elevated to the committee for evidence gathering.
Once it’s elevated to the committee, your time remaining at your pack is limited. Once it arrives at the regional committee’s office, depending on the department’s workload it can take anywhere from a week to three months to start investigating your case. Obviously the more dangerous you are believed to be the quicker the committee starts their investigation but all investigations are started within three months.”
I pause again as I know this is an overwhelming amount of information.
“Once the committee picks up your case they will take a month to review the application. If they agree with the council then they will start contacting everyone you have had contact with. This is where being a prospect is beneficial to you as they will contact the closest council to each of the packs you have been a prospect at. It doesn’t matter if you spent a day, a week, a month or a year they will first send a questionnaire that each alpha and his upper ring must participate in as well as the dates that the council member will stay at the pack to interview the alpha. They will usually stay a few days to a week before compiling the information and sending it back to the committee. All the evidence we have showing how sensitive you are towards the way you act around others will be given to them. I have no way of knowing what the other packs will say but all of them will be involved in the evidence gathering.
While the council closest to those packs you prospected with are working on your case, six members will be added to the four already assigned and all ten will move into your pack for three months. It is when those council members move in that the committee will come and remove you from the pack.”
I pause again as he finally reacts, looking at me with fear and worry in his eyes.
“Why?” He’s barely able to choke out. “Why would they take me away? Doesn’t that mean they assume I’m guilty?”
“This was one of the hardest aspects of my process for the council and committee to agree with until I explained my thinking. The purpose of such a complex process is to insure as much neutrality as one can achieve as I found during my years there that seventy-five percent of wolves that are indeed feral became that way due to long term abuse and/or neglect. They had to let go of societal norms in order to survive and it turned their wolf permanently. So the removal of the wolf being investigated has two purposes. In the event that the wolf is indeed feral, removal of the wolf protects the pack from any danger that they may pose. If, like you, the wolf is not feral then removal protects you from the pack. Either way, the removal is permanent.
This is the reason we are telling you that time is not on your side. If everything goes perfectly and there’s no issues with neutrality, there’s only fourteen weeks between him turning in the application requesting an investigation and your removal from the pack”
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