She will have to die if the hunters win... But whatever greater good they hope to achieve appears increasingly unlikely now. And the rest of the town recognizes her virtues enough to prevent her from going through with any sufficiently self-sacrificial plan.

It's strange. The way the ex-wolves act make me believe the only lies we preys have been told are ones of omission, about whatever glorious prize accompanies wolf victory, and that none of what Critter says about the prey simply surviving and being able to return home is false. In that case, what do you think would accompany solving the entire mystery before us? An intermediate outcome?