...it's really obvious by now that if we were allowed to know about the pack's secret - there would be no more competition. You're a heroine in either of your roles, somehow, that much I can believe.

What I don't understand is why the clues likewise lead to a wolf-sympathetic conclusion... but Lithuania, upon apparently discovering this fact and betraying the prey, was executed. Is that not what he was supposed to think? Why would Critter allow us to lay these breadcrumbs for the travelers if they can't eat the corresponding grubloaf?