{"id":1279,"date":"2026-03-27T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:03:19","slug":"chapter-9-red-in-the-face068","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/27\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face068\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 9 Red in the Face068"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/26\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face067\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page68 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/28\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face069\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>Which means that <em>Wolves Here Town <\/em>is not too far from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fascinated, NutJob wants to know more, \u201cand when did the wolves disappear? And when did they come back? And <em>how<\/em> did they come back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could talk about this for hours,\u201d says Franklin, \u201cbut it\u2019s nearly 18:00 and you two have work to do! All you\u2019re getting right now is a snapshot!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She goes on to explain that in about 1400AD the last wolf in the British Isles was cornered on a spit of land near Grange Over Sands at the southern tip of the Lake District. Trapped on Humphrey Head, with the sea on three sides, the wolf was killed by a man called John Harrington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor thousands of years,\u201d explains Franklin, \u201c this country had no Eurasian Grey Wolves. Until they were reintroduced into the Scottish Highlands in small numbers, as a carefully controlled scientific experiment. Then the world changed. The Decimation meant that many science projects were abandoned, forgotten, or neglected. The wolves spread out in all directions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, places known as \u2018zoos\u2019 and \u2018safari parks\u2019 could no longer care for their animals. Many of them were put down. Some of them were turned into food. And a few were released into the wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the species were native to these islands then they were to be set free in a controlled and staged release. And, of course, by 2162 that included wolves. So that led to the wild wolves from Scotland mingling with the newly released captive wolves from everywhere else, and the population slowly increased. The first part of the journey was the controlled release from the animal parks. The initial release worked as planned, but then when staffing levels collapsed, the final batches of animals were all released at the same time, including some non native species. Now, there are more black panthers than ever before in Dorset. There are colonies of wallabies all over Mannin and throughout Dartmoor. And all over the Peak District! Across the nine deserts of East Anglia there were<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/26\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face067\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page68 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/28\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face069\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page68 \u2013 Next Which means that Wolves Here Town is not too far from the truth.\u201d Fascinated, NutJob wants to know more, \u201cand when did the wolves disappear? And when did they come back? And how did they come back?\u201d \u201cI could talk about this for hours,\u201d says Franklin, \u201cbut it\u2019s nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/27\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face068\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 9 Red in the Face068&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}