This is my word: that we fall upon the men of Dingaan twice, once in the glade of the forest whither they will come presently, and, if we are beaten back, then we must stand for the last time on the knees of the Witch in front of the cave where Nada is.

Say, Wolf, will the Grey Folk fight ?" "To the last, brother, so long as one is left to lead them, after that I do not know! Still they have only fangs to set against spears.
Slaughterer, your plan is good.

Come, I am rested." So they rose and numbered their flock, and all were there, though it was not as it had been years ago when first the Wolf-Brethren hunted on Ghost Mountain; for many of the wolves had died by men's spears when they harried the kraals of men, and no young were born to them.

Then, as once before, the pack was halved, and half, the she-wolves, went with Umslopogaas, and half, the dog-wolves, went with Galazi.
Now they passed down the forest paths and hid in the tangle of the thickets at the head of the darksome glen, one on each side of the glen.
Here they waited till they heard the footfall of the impi of the king's Slayers, as it came slowly along seeking them.

In front of the impi went two soldiers watching for an ambush, and these two men were the same who had talked together that dawn when Galazi sprang between them.