The Dead Sheep and the Convenient Blame
Outsiders arrived.
Clipboards. Trucks. Cold eyes.
Dr. Marcus Vale, a wildlife behavioralist, spoke like wonder was a disease.
“A wolf crossing boundaries must be removed,” he warned. “Studied or destroyed before someone gets hurt.”
Then the sheep were found slaughtered on the eastern flats.
Throats torn.
Blood on snow.
Town panic reignited instantly.
And Branwen was blamed without hesitation.
Even though something inside me screamed it was wrong.
