Did Naomi want to stay with Charlotte? That was a given. Did she want to abandon her pack? No she didn't. Why she didn't always show it, she
considered the various huskies to be her family. She was certainly closer to them then she had been to any human relatives. While she wasn't
happy about Jessica/Juanita and Katie being gone and only having males as the 'eldest' of her packmates, that didn't mean she cared about
them any less.
She didn't WANT to leave them, they were her responsibility as their alpha . . . and if she left . . . who was going to be alpha instead? Who could
she trust in the pack with that responsibility with her gone?
Plus she was pretty sure she could kiss her severance package goodbye if she left with barely twenty-four hours notice. She loved Charlotte,
but she loved her packmates too in ways that went beyond being simply coworkers on the park's security team.
And going out there . . . in that world again . . . that chaotic, random, unpredictable, maddening world. Naomi had happiness in this park, a
sense of order she hadn't been able to find in the outside world, there was always a sense of structure and what should and should not be
done. Out there, in that outside world of human beings, it was an ocean in a storm of conflicting agendas and beliefs.
Charlotte ironically was going through a similar thing with the wolf pack, but on a lesser scale since she hadn't known her pack as long as
Naomi had known hers. How much instinct effected behavior of anthros was still a topic of hot debate. And many wolves had described leaving
the 'park pack' as physically painful, this might explain why some of the wolves who had left the park had formed a commune with each other.
While the feeling wasn't as intense with huskies as it was with wolves, it was there. Charlotte had spent most of the day she hadn't spent with
Naomi kissing and hugging her packmates goodbye. Charlotte herself had also helped give the wolf pack an extra sense of order that it had
been craving.
Some guests even considered the wolf pack to be the 'moderators' of their neck of the park. They kept things running so smoothly that the
huskies practically let them do as they would. Some guests however were worried about this. After all, weren't the wolves just guests like them?
And on the outside was the hot debate on furries' invoking the 'wookie rule' that having fur covering everything meant they weren't naked, and
other saying it was 'special treatment' rather than 'equal treatment' to allow anthros to ignore public decency laws while at the same time
wanting the same rights and privileges like the rest of civilization.
The wolf commune being a nudist colony if anything had only made things more intense.
Charlotte didn't exactly care about that though. She knew her new body was going to cause some ripples among some of her friends and
family, but if they had accepted her male self's attraction to the same gender, then her new self shouldn't be that big a stretch right? She was
looking forward to catching up on her friends and family once outside of the park.
Even with all the tiny communities that had formed within the park of naked animal people of every american species and age group, there
were still those who came here purely to enjoy themselves for a short time and then go back to their lives, and that was fine with everyone.