How It All Goes Down
- Glass finds an abandoned campsite (presumably left by an Indian group) on top of a hill and settles in for the night. Feels like a storm's a-brewing.
- Glass looks down into the valley below and sees an incredible sight: "thousands of buffalo" grazing (1.10.5). They look...delicious.
- There's a group of eight wolves nearby who seem to be thinking the same thing. Glass watches as the alpha wolf starts bounding towards the buffalo, his pack following close behind.
- The pack goes into attack mode, finally managing to take down a calf. The alpha male and his family take first dibs while the rest of them wait.
- Glass realizes that this is a major opportunity. But how's he supposed to rumble with eight big bad wolves?
- As he looks around for weapons, Glass notices a bunch of sage lying around. Sage just so happens to burst into flames when it catches on fire, so Glass decides to start grabbing branches.
- Glass creates a makeshift torch using the sage and builds a fire. He also grabs a few handfuls of branches to use as backup.
- With that, Glass lights the torch and runs headlong towards a pack of wolves. This is going to turn out well.
- The wolves are confused by the fire but continue munching on the calf. Meanwhile, Glass hears the "deep bass of thunder" and realizes that it's about to rain (1.10.28). Seriously?
- Feeling a light drizzle, Glass rushes towards the wolves and swings the torch. One bites him on the shoulder, but he manages to shake it loose.
- That's when Glass notices clumps of sage surrounding the calf's body. He lights them aflame with his torch, and after the alpha male retreats to their den, the remaining wolves follow.
- Holy smokes—Glass did it.
- Glass spends the next three days slowly eating bits of raw meat before building a fire to preserve the rest. The wolves already ate the choice cuts—namely, the organs—but there's still a bunch left.
- Unsurprisingly, Glass feels tons better. He even builds a crutch so he can finally walk upright.
- As he sits in front of his fire, full for the first time in a long time, Glass attaches the bear claw to his hawk's-feet necklace. That's what you call frontier chic, people.