When the guard asks why he's firing a gun at night, he discovers that a wolf has attacked the barracks. The wolf's bark is unusual, the guard tells us, because it's the first time he'd ever seen a wolf bark. He asks a dog expert if he can explain why the wolf is barking. The dog expert says that dogs can howl when they're attacked due to their "ancestral blood" , but that this wolf is "acting weird" . The guard orders some soldiers to follow the wolf to find out what's wrong. He tells the dog expert that if he hadn't let the wolf out, the wolf would have killed them. He says that if they didn't kill the wolf, they would have attracted the enemy, and no one would have been hurt. The guards say that if